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THE  CHRIST-LAW 

IN 
THE  STAR  OF  BETHLEHEM 


A  Portrayal  of  the  Scientific  Law  of  Healing 

through  a  soul  experience  and  expression 

of  the  Law  of  Life,  Love,  Truth, 

as  taught  by  our  Master, 

Jesus  the  Christ. 


PUBLISHED  1913,  BY  WM.  M.  KELLOGG 
LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 


Copyrighted  1913,  by  Wm.  M.  Kellogg 
All  rights  reserved 


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X. 


Preface. 

1  Mind. 

2  Life. 

3  Love. 

4  Truth. 

5  Obedience. 

6  Holiness. 

7  Harmony. 

8  Righteousness. 

9  Principle. 

10  Dominion. 

11  Intelligence. 

12  Being. 

13  Wisdom 


CONTENTS 

The  supreme  law  of  perfection 23 

The  action  of  Mind 35 

The  substance  of  Mind 48 

The  perfection  of  Mind 60 

The  life  of  Love 72 

The  love  of  Love 98 

The  truth  of  Love 117 

The  love  of  Truth 139 

The  truth  of  Truth l65 

The  life  of  Truth 189 

The  truth  of  Life 214 

The  life  of  Life 235 

The  love   of   Life 253 

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PREFACE 


In  placing  this  subject  of  the  healing  Christ  consciousness 
before  the  reader^  it  is  to  be  considered  as  the  supreme  law  of 
perfection  coming  from  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit.  By  means 
of  a  diagram  to  be  known  as  the  "Star  of  Bethlehem"  will  be 
portrayed  a  clear  and  comprehensive  explanation  of  the  scien- 
tific principle  of  right  thoughts,  and  it  must  be  understood  that 
these  thoughts  as  states  of  consciousness  are  to  be  our  states 
of  spiritual  being.  This  work  is  essentially  a  discussion  in- 
tended to  reveal  the  utter  falsity  of  evil  as  a  living  power  with 
action  in  its  own  name.  Through  logical  reasoning  in  obedience 
to  one  spiritual  law,  and  by  reference  to  some  of  the  axiomatic 
facts  given  by  Jesus  the  Christ,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  through 
these  means  we  may  all  come  together  on  a  common  ground  of 
understanding.  An  understanding  in  every  way  similar  to  that 
which  we  hold  of  the  multiplication  table,  for  the  infallible  and 
scientific  law  of  good  precludes  all  arguments  as  to  its  fact  of 
being  and  rightness  as  a  law,  even  as  this  same  multiplication 
table  does. 

It  will  be  our  daily  work  to  establish  in  mind  this  law  of 
perfection  and  to  eschew  the  impotent  and  imperfect  mortal 
sense  concepts  about  material  conditions,  for  we  must  enter  into 
spiritual  being. 

The  object  of  this  book  is  to  show  how  Christ's  teaching  as  a 
scientific  law  of  right  living  is  spiritual  in  essence  and  cannot 
be  reduced  to  mortality  and  defiled  therein.  Mortality  must  be 
put  off  and  spirituality  put  on  through  knowing  the  absolute 
scientific  law  of  the  Christ. 

Few  people  realize  that  they  as  well  as  the  struggling  mass 
of  humanity  seen  upon  our  streets  are  active  mentalities  only, 
constantly  living,  acting  and  doing  something,  and  if  not  guided 
into  the  lawful  channel  of  perfect  right  and  held  therein  because 


bftfee  fact  of  knowing  the  law  of  good,  just  as  we  are  held  by 
knowing  the  multiplication  table,  then  what  is  to  keep  them  from 
going  astray  following  the  carnal  sense-mind  in  the  suggestion 
of  good  and  evil  through  the  deceiving  senses?  For  these 
people  will  continue  living,  moving,  and  doing  something  either 
good  or  bad,  right  or  wrong. 

Now  there  is  a  perfect  law  of  righteousness  which  is  com- 
pletely finished  and  can  be  understood,  it  is  just  as  absolute  and 
certain  in  its  demonstration  as  the  law  of  mathematics,  and 
just  as  applicable  to  our  daily  life  and  its  living.  But  hitherto 
it  has  not  been  orderly  revealed  in  its  Christ-meaning  of  per- 
fection as  given  in  the  diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  For 
this  reason  people  generally  have  not  been  able  to  understand 
and  use  it  through  perception  of  its  scientific  perfection. 

This  perfect  law  is  not  contaminated  with  or  in  any  way 
influenced  by  man-made  laws;  for  nothing  can  be  added  to  it  or 
taken  from  its  already  perfect  being.  It  alone  is  sufficient  to 
teach  and  guide  us  in  all  right  and  true  living,  and  apart  from 
it  there  is  no  right  living. 

Through  it  would  all  the  world  comie  together  into  perfect 
harmony  of  being.  Under  the  influence  of  this  perfect  law  of 
the  righteous  Christ  would  all  fighting  and  dominating  mortal 
minds  be  laid  aside,  and  the  impotent  mortal  self  be  lost  in 
the  wonderful  radiance  and  presence  of  the  law  of  the  Christ's 
perfection. 

The  fundamental  analysis  and  classification  of  ideas,  as  given 
in  the  diagram  to  be  known  as  the  Star  of  Bethlehem,  are  to 
represent  the  principle  or  law  of  perfect  idea  entities  as  that 
Mind  of  the  Christ,  for  Mind  and  Christ  are  one,  in  which  evil 
is  not  considered  neither  has  representation.  The  ideas,  as  given 
in  the  Star,  are  intended  as  a  beginning,  with  the  hope  that  study 
on  the  part  of  others  may  result  in  more  perfect  spiritual  realiza- 
tions, and  clearer  soul  experiences  of  this  constructive  law  of 
good,  thereby  enlarging  and  eventually  perfecting  the  system. 

To  discern  and  arrange  in  right  relation  these  perfect  ideas, 
even  to  fill  out  the  third  and  fourth  circles,  will  be  found  to 
require  a  considerable  ability  in  real  spiritual  understanding; 
and  is  seemingly  difficult  to  attain  to  perfection  with  its  inherent 
dominion.     But  it  can  be  attained  here  and  now  in  a  practical 


way  sufficient  to  meet  all  our  needs,  and  surely  will  correct 
our  imperfect  thoughts  and  all  of  their  fearful  manifestations. 
Moreover,  we  must  not  forget  that  we  are  commanded  by  the 
Lord,  even  as  Abram  was  long  ago,  as  recorded  in  Gen.  17:1, 
to  walk  before  the  Lord  in  his  law  and  be  perfect. 

In  Matt.  5:48,  Our  Master  repeated  this  command,  for  he 
said,  "Be  ye  therefore  perfect,  even  as  your  Father  which  is 
in  heaven  is  perfect." 

If  it  had  not  been  possible  for  us  to  live  in  perfection  then 
would  we  not  have  been  so  commanded,  but  how  is  it  possible 
for  us  to  live  perfectly  when  we  do  not  know  that  law  which 
makes  perfect.'^  That  is  the  Christ-meaning  of  all  things  as  a 
scientific  law  of  perfection;  and  more,  when  we  are  not  skilled 
in  its  use  and  application,  even  as  we  are  in  other  sciences 
such  as  logic,  music  or  mathematics  .^^ 

The  progressive  people  of  today  are  beginning  to  look  for  a 
law  of  perfection,  shorn  of  all  mortal  contamination  as  of  opin- 
ions, doubts,  long  standing  customs,  social  supremacy,  material 
wealth's  seeming  power^  ecclesiastical  domination,  etc.  They 
want  a  principle  of  perfect  being  apart  from  mortals  which 
they  can  absolutely  trust,  and  scientifically  learn  to  know  in 
perfection  with  all  hocus-pocus  eliminated,  and  be  able  to  mani- 
fest it  because  they  know  it,  and  know  how  and  why  they 
know  it. 

Again  they  demand  an  understandable  science  of  perfect  being, 
as  for  instance  the  perfect  law  of  righteousness,  which  gives 
forth  everywhere  the  absolute  freedom  of  spiritual  thought,  shorn 
of  all  mystery  and  bondage  to  material  laws,  which  pretend  to 
give  a  license  of  special  privilege  to  some  people  for  money, 
thinking  thereby  to  limit  God's  law,  or  even  to  guide  it  in  its 
perfect  action. 

The  law,  as  given  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem,  portrays  the  per- 
fect principle  of  Mind's  action,  substance  and  perfection,  as  the 
one  Christ-meaning  of  life,  love,  truth,  which  is  the  one  mean- 
ing of  all  created  things. 

This  law  of  the  perfect  Christ  overcomes  all  other  laws  tak- 
ing their  place,  because  of  the  satisfying  and  final  testimony  of 
perfection  given  by  Spirit  to  our  spirit,  which  testimony  is  not 
contaminated  with  impotent  mortality. 


SOURCE  OF  THE  STAR'S  DIAGRAM 

Before  we  take  up  the  law  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem^  it  will  be 
well  to  reveal  the  source  of  this  diagram.  To  do  this  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  golden  candlestick,  with  an  illustration,  is  given,  so 
that  everyone  may  judge  for  themselves  as  to  its  authority  and 
authenticity. 

Moses  commanded  that  there  should  be  built  a  golden  candle- 
stick, which  should  be  placed  within  the  tabernacle  of  the  Lord; 
and  lighted,  that  it  might  give  light  over  against  it.  A  glance 
at  the  illustration  will  show  that  the  light  from  the  lamp  of  each 
branch  is  represented  by  a  triangle  of  either  life,  love,  or  truth; 
each  one  of  which  must  contain  all  three,  for  they  are  insepar- 
able, and  therefore  each  point  of  the  triangle  must  represent 
life,  love,  truth.  Now  in  the  central  branch  we  find  all  three 
triangles  represented,  each  with  a  point  of  life,  love,  truth, 
making  nine  points;  and  this  is  where  we  get  the  Star  of  Beth- 
lehem. 

The  light  of  its  meaning  is  given  in  the  infinite  progression 
of  its  ideas  in  association,  which  are  substituted  for  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning.  These  perfect  ideas,  as  the  word  of  God, 
are  our  states  of  spiritual  being  in  Mind,  and  constitute  the 
governing  power  of  the  Christ. 

In  John  8:31,32  Jesus  said,  "If  ye  continue  in  my  word  then 
are  ye  my  disciples  indeed:  and  ye  shall  know  the  truth,  and 
the  truth  shall  make  you  free." 

From  this  it  appears  that  we  must  continue  in  his  word  and 
walk  in  the  knowledge  of  the  Lord's  law  of  perfection,  for  therein 
are  we  to  be  made  perfect;  made  free  from  imperfections  which 
we  have  acquired  through  following  after  false-sense  suggestions. 

Our  freedom  is  to  be  gained  through  soul  experiences  of  spir- 
itual being  only,  as  represented  in  the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ. 

It  is  with  this  thought  of  perfection  foremost  in  mind  that  the 
Star  and  its  law  of  the  one  Christ-meaning  of  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection  is  presented  to  you;  with  the  hope 
that  you  will  find  in  the  following  pages  a  spark  of  spiritual 
light  which  is  sufficiently  clear  and  strong  enough  to  light  your 
candle ;  and  by  means  of  this  light  find  the  strait  and  narrow 
path  of  absolute  law,  which  alone  leads  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven. 


As  a  part  of  this  preface  is  given  the  spiritual  interpretation 
of  the  golden  candlestick,  which  is  the  source  of  the  diagram 
of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  You  are  referred  to  the  diagram  in 
the   front  of  the  book. 

THE  GOLDEN  CANDLESTICK 

A  Revelation  of  Its  Spiritual  Meaning  Through  the  Central  Star 

This  golden  ornament  was  a  spiritual  symbol,  placed  by  Moses 
in  the  tabernacle  of  the  Lord,  about  the  year  1400  B.  C. 

It  is  again  referred  to  about  100  A.  D.  in  the  account  of  St. 
John's  vision  of  the  Christ,  given  in  the  first  three  chapters  of 
Revelation. 

Again  in  IPOO  A.  D.  attention  is  called  to  it  through  the  rev- 
elation of  the  perfect  Christ-law,  as  given  in  the  Star  of  Bethle- 
hem, for  this  law  of  the  life-love-truth-meaning  illumines  the 
candlestick  with  light. 

In  Exodus  25:31-38  we  read  a  description  of  the  golden  can- 
dlestick, which  Moses  commanded  to  be  made  and  placed  in  the 
holy  tabernacle  of  the  Lord.  "And  they  shall  light  the  lamps 
thereof,  that  they  may  give  light  over  against  it.'* 

The  candlestick  was  a  symbol  of  God's  holy  law  of  righteous- 
ness, and  made  to  illustrate  the  relation  and  association  of  all 
Christ  ideas,  as  applied  to  man  spiritual,  in  order  to  correct  the 
imperfect  and  therefore  deceiving-sense  testimony  of  man  mortal. 

This  candlestick  was  more  than  an  ornament,  for  it  was  a 
symbol  of  the  law  of  life,  love,  truth,  to  all  generations. 

This  object  of  gold,  as  a  thing  of  material  appearance,  could 
not  of  itself  reveal  its  spiritual  meaning,  for  matter  cannot  speak, 
think,  or  express  anything.  Spirit  alone  has  this  ability.  It 
is  the  work  of  Spirit,  which  has  revealed  the  law  of  the  Star  to 
the  world,  that  it  might  have  a  substantial  light  to  guide  it 
through  the  paths  of  darkness. 

In  verse  31  we  read  that  this  candlestick  was  to  consist  of  a 
shaft  having  branches,  bowls,  knops  and  flowers;  all  to  be  made 
of  pure  gold  as  a  symbol  of  one  substantial  love. 

In  verse  32  a  careful  description  of  this  symbol  is  begun,  and 


in  that  which  follows  an  endeavor  will  be  made  to  associate 
with  this  description  the  ideas  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem^  in  order 
to  give  to  the  candlestick  a  spiritual  meaning  of  law  as  that  of 
the  Christ  righteousness. 

The  base  of  the  candlestick  stands  as  a  representative  symbol 
or  foundation  of  the  one  source  of  all  true  meaning  within  the 
realm  of  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit;  from  which  comes  the  shaft 
as  the  Christy  who  is  to  be  the  revealing  law  of  life-love-truth- 
meaning  to  all  people  and  give  them  an  understanding  of  God 
therein. 

This  shaft  as  the  substance  of  the  Christ-law  includes  three 
knops  as  seats  of  power  to  give  forth  life-action^  love-substance, 
truth-perfection;  and  from  them  are  to  come  every  true  idea  of 
spiritual  light. 

We  read  that  six  branches  shall  come  out  of  the  sides  of  it, 
three  branches  out  of  the  one  side  and  three  branches  out  of  the 
other  side. 

These  branches  correspond  to  the  first  and  last  points  of  the 
Star  in  each  realm  of  life,  love,  truth;  but  the  central  points 
all  belong  to  the  shaft  proper  and  are  placed  in  the  seventh 
branch. 

Therefore,  on  the  one  side  of  the  shaft,  coming  out  from  the 
knop  of  love,  extends  the  branch  of  obedience  as  the  beginning 
of  all  understanding^  and  corresponds  to  the  first  point  of  the 
Star  in  the  realm  of  love.  On  the  other  side,  coming  out  from 
the  same  knop,  extends  the  branch  of  harmony,  and  corresponds 
to  the  third  point  of  the  Star  in  the  realm  of  love.  Next,  on  the 
one  side  of  the  shaft  coming  out  from  the  knop  of  truth,  extends 
the  branch  of  righteousness,  which  corresponds  to  the  first  point 
of  the  Star  in  the  realm  of  truth.  On  the  other  side  of  the  shaft, 
coming  out  from  the  same  knop,  extends  the  branch  of  dominion, 
which  corresponds  to  the  last  point  of  the  Star  in  the  realm  of 
truth.  Next,  on  one  side  of  the  shaft  coming  out  from  the  knop 
of  life,  extends  the  branch  of  intelligence,  which  corresponds 
to  the  first  point  of  the  Star  in  the  realm  of  life.  On  the  other 
side,  coming  out  from  the  same  knop,  extends  the  branch  of 
wisdom,  which  corresponds  to  the  last  point  of  the  Star  in  the 
realm  of  life.  Herein  we  have  the  six  branches  of  the  candle- 
stick and  the  light  of  their  meaning.     Next  goes  forth  the  con- 


tinuation  of  the  shaft  as  the  seventh  branchy  which  is  to  be  the 
center  of  the  law  itself.  This  branch  is  to  represent  three  points 
of  the  Star — the  point  of  the  life  of  life  in  the  center  of  the 
realm  of  life.  The  point  of  the  truth  of  truth  in  the  center  of 
the  realm  of  truth.  The  point  of  the  love  of  love  in  the  center 
of  the  realm  of  love.  These  points  represent  Being,  Principle, 
Holiness. 

The  points  of  the  Star,  as  well  as  the  branches  of  the  candle- 
stick, are  to  be  understood  as  lights  of  understanding  coming 
from  Mind,  and  as  giving  one  meaning  of  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection. 

In  verse  33  we  read  where  each  branch  is  supplied  with  three 
bowls — a  knop,  and  a  flower  apiece — all  of  which  correspond 
perfectly  with  the  law  as  given  in  the  Christ-meaning  of  life, 
love,  truth.  For  the  bowls  holding  the  oil  represent  the  source 
of  light,  from  which  comes  understanding,  and  being  three,  they 
correspond  to  the  three  counterparts  of  each  branch  idea.  For 
instance,  the  bowls,  which  represent  the  counterparts  of  the 
branch  of  obedience,  are  in  the  Star  shown  to  be  loyalty,  service, 
loveliness ;  loyalty  as  the  truth  of  obedience,  service  as  the  life  of 
obedience,  and  loveliness  as  the  love  of  obedience.  In  this  way 
is  one  true  meaning  given  to  each  branch  of  the  candlestick, 
through  the  ideas  in  association  with  each  point  of  the  Star. 

The  knop  is  symbolical  of  the  seed-bearing  power,  represent- 
ing the  life  which  is  in  itself;  the  knop  is  a  seat  of  energy  having 
an  ever-living  power  of  life  presence  within  it,  bringing  forth  in 
likeness  of  itself,  thereby  continuing  its  particular  phase  of  Mind- 
expression. 

Above  the  knops  come  the  bowls,  which  are  symbolical  of  the 
substance  of  the  Christ-mind,  the  source  of  all  light  as  perfected 
ideas  in  the  law. 

The  flowers  are  the  ornament  of  realized  good  as  the  love 
therein.  Above  the  bowls  come  the  flame  of  light  as  the  under- 
standing of  the  one  Christ-meaning  of  life,  love,  truth,  which 
alone,  because  of  its  final  testimony  as  all,  makes  us  to  know 
spiritual  presence. 

In  verse  34  we  read  that  in  the  branch  of  the  shaft  proper, 
that  is,  in  the  seventh  branch,  are  four  bowls,  they  are  repre- 


sentative  of  Love  as  Holiness,  Truth  as  Principle,  and  Life  as 
Being;  with  Jesus  as  the  perfect  manifestation  of  them  all. 

The  almond-shaped  bowls  are  representative  of  the  triangular 
divisions  in  the  points  of  the  Star,  and  are  to  contain  the 
three  ideas  as  the  counterparts  of  the  branch  idea. 

In  verse  35  we  read  where  there  is  a  knop  under  each  set  of 
branches,  which  is  as  a  seat  of  power  to  send  out  these  branches. 
The  first  one  represents  the  action  and  perfection  of  love;  the 
second  one  represents  the  substance  and  action  of  truth;  the 
third  one  represents  the  perfection  and  substance  of  life. 

In  verse  36  we  read  that  it  shall  all  be  made  of  one  substance, 
as  of  gold,  which  is  symbolical  of  love  as  the  very  base  of  the 
Christ-law. 

In  verse  37  we  read  where  seven  lamps  are  made  and  com- 
manded to  be  lighted,  that  is  they  must  give  forth  an  under- 
standing as  a  meaning  of  one  law  of  perfect  righteousness;  in  a 
living  expression  of  which  we  must  abide,  that  we  may  be  healed 
of  all  erroneous  sense-imaginations. 

Having  associated  together  the  Candlestick  and  the  Star  of 
Bethlehem,  wherein  each  gives  to  the  other  a  meaning,  then 
let  us  turn  to  the  first  three  chapters  of  Revelation,  where  this 
subject  is  continued. 

Revelation^  First  Chapter. 

In  verse  11  of  chapter  1,  John  is  commanded  to  send  to  the 
seven  churches  in  Asia  the  revelation  given  to  him  in  a  vision 
of  the  Christ.  These  seven  churches  represent  the  seven  states 
of  spiritual  being  as  given  in  the  candlestick,  and  also  in  the 
Star  of  Bethlehem,  and  when  they  are  known  give  a  complete 
concept  of  the  one  perfect  church  of  Christ. 

It  is  without  doubt  to  the  people  of  these  churches,  who  are 
striving  to  manifest  the  different  states  of  spiritual  being,  that 
this  message  is  sent;  at  least  the  rest  of  the  chapter  and  the 
lesson  of  the  whole  vision  points  that  way. 

In  verse  12  John,  being  turned  from  observing  sense  testimony, 
saw  the  illumination  of  spiritual  understanding,  as  the  infinite 
presence  of  the  seven  separate  candlesticks,  which  were  seven 
states  of  individual  spiritual  being.     He  realized  that  it  was  the 


power  of  the  Christ  which  gave  them  presence  and  that  He  was 
in  and  among  them  all. 

In  verse  13  John  beheld  the  principle  of  the  law  of  life^  love^ 
truth,  as  the  perfection  of  good  in  the  midst  of  the  candlestick, 
which  was  clothed  with  the  garment  of  illumined  understanding, 
and  was  girt  about  the  heart  with  a  golden  girdle  of  love. 

In  verse  14  the  head,  that  is  the  perfect  intent  of  the  law, 
was  white  with  purity,  being  perfectly  holy  and  good;  and  his 
eyes  were  aflame  with  the  fire  of  truth,  which  was  the  under- 
standing of  the  law  of  good. 

In  verse  15  his  feet,  that  is  the  foundation  of  the  law,  was 
made  firm  and  everlasting  through  the  power  of  truth-perfection ; 
and  his  voice  was  as  the  sea  of  perfect  ideas  in  infinite  expression 
of  life,  love,  truth,  through  Spirit's  testimony  to  our  spirit. 

In  verse  16  the  Christ-vision  held  within  its  illumination  the 
seven  stars  of  the  candlestick,  which  were  the  lights  of  spiritual 
meaning  given  forth,  the  understanding  of  truth's  perfection  as  a 
sharp  sword  to  prevail  against  all  error. 

In  verse  17  St.  John  realized  his  mortal  impotence  and  beheld 
mortality  in  comparison  to  perfection  as  nothingness.  But  our 
Saviour  said  to  fear  not,  for  I  am  thy  first  understanding  in  obe- 
dience as  the  living  action  of  love,  and  also  thy  ultimate  and 
final  understanding  of  love's  substance  in  wisdom. 

In  verse  18  we  all  know  that  the  Christ-law  is  the  key  which 
unlocks  the  bondage  of  death  and  hell,  freeing  us  from  its 
fearful  mortal  concepts  of  fury  and  confusion;  and  is  the 
understanding  which  prevails  over  all  evil,  loosening  our  bonds 
of  suffering  because  of  sin,  for  it  is  to  utterly  destroy  the  false 
testimony  of  the  carnal  sense-mind. 

In  verse  20  the  vision  tells  St.  John  that  the  seven  stars  are 
the  angels  (the  soul  entities)  of  the  seven  churches;  these  stars 
are  the  spiritual  light  and  power  of  understanding  in  the  seven 
candlesticks,  and  that  the  seven  candlesticks  are  the  substance 
of  the  churches  as  the  Christ-law  or  the  churches  themselves. 
And  in  the  next  two  chapters  is  given  Christ's  guiding  words 
of  advice  and  warning  to  the  members  of  these  churches. 

Each  branch  of  the  candlestick  represents  an  individual  church 
as  a  state  of  spiritual  being,  which  is  a  phase  of  Mind  in  the 
one  law;  we  are  all  to  attain  each  individual  state  of  understand- 


ing  within  Mind's  being,  in  order  to  gain  membership  in  the 
perfect  church;  which  is  apart  from  all  political  organizations 
as  a  church.  , 

The  candlestick  gives  the  seven  stages  of  the  one  perfect  church 
as  the  complete  law  of  the  Christ-mind;  and  we  must  pass 
through  and  attain  the  soul  experience  of  each  one  of  the 
branches  before  we  are  qualified  to  realize  the  last  and  final 
stage  of  the  church  of  Laodicea  and  have  a  seat  with  our  Saviour 
in  his  throne. 

THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIFE  OF  LOVE.    REV.  3:1. 
The  Spirit  of  Obedience  as  the  Angel  of  the  Church  of  Sardis. 

Verse  1.  "I  know  thy  works,  that  thou  hast  a  name  that  thou 
livest  {obedience)  and  art  dead.*'  Not  knowing  that  obedience 
is  the  life  of  love.  In  verse  5,  ** Shall  be  clothed  in  white  rai- 
ment (holiness)."  These  refer  to  the  realm  of  love. 

Verse  2.  Be  watchful  and  strengthen  your  knowing  of  the 
law,  for  I  have  not  found  thy  works  (as  expressions  of  love  in 
obedience)  perfect  before  God. 

Verse  3.  We  are  told  that  there  is  no  place  of  safety  except 
to  live  in  obedience,  actual  loveliness;  also  that  no  excuse  for 
disobedience  will  be  admissable,  for  we  are  commanded  to  walk 
in  the  law. 

Verse  4.  There  are  some  who  are  obedient  in  loveliness,  not 
having  defiled  their  garments  in  hate  for  any  cause,  and  they 
shall  walk  with  the  Christ  in  consciousness  of  the  law's  good, 
and  therein  be  made  perfect  because  they  are  worthy  and  de- 
serving of  holiness. 

Verse  5.  Him  that  overcomes  disobedience,  as  fear  or  hate, 
and  manifests  obedience  as  loveliness,  I  will  confess  this  indi- 
viduality before  my  Father  and  his  angels,  and  he  shall  be  clothed 
in  holiness  and  harmony  as  the  perfect  state  of  love. 


THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  TRUTH  OF  LOVE.  REV.  3:7. 

The  Spirit  of  Harmony  as  the  Angel  of  the  Church  of 
Philadelphia. 

Verse  7.  "These  things  saith  he  that  is  holy."  "He  that  hath 
the  key  of  David"  {perfect  love  as  harmony).  These  refer  to  the 
realm  of  love. 

Verse  8.  "Behold  I  place  before  thee  an  open  door  {the  law 
of  love),  and  no  man  can  overcome  it."  For  thou  hast  but  little 
strength^  it  being  hidden  by  mortal  concepts  of  weakness;  still 
through  strength  thou  hast  kept  my  law  and  not  denied  my  name 
as  the  life-love-truth-meaning  of  good. 

Verse  9-  Behold^  I  will  make  the  discordant  mortal  con- 
sciousness to  come  and  worship  before  thee  in  the  law,  that  they 
may  learn  to  know  the  truth  of  love  as  the  harmony  of  spiritual 
presence. 

Verse  10.  Having  the  spiritual  consciousness  of  harmony 
firmly  fixed  in  the  soul  then  will  evil  be  cast  out  and  we  be  pro- 
tected therein. 

Verse  11.  We  are  commanded  to  hold  fast  to  this  expression 
of  harmony,  so  that  no  mental  suggestion  in  mortality  shall  take 
this  crown  of  life  from  us  and  leave  us  in  darkness. 

Verse  12.  Him  that  overcomes  and  gains  this  consciousness 
of  the  truth  of  love  will  I  make  a  pillar  in  the  temple  of  my 
God.  He  shall  go  no  more  out,  for  once  knowing  the  truth  of 
the  law,  then  he  can  never  know  its  opposite,  and  he  shall  have 
written  in  his  soul  a  spiritual  understanding  of  the  Christ 
and  power  to  express   him. 

THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  LOVE  OF  TRUTH.     REV.  2:12. 

The  Spirit  of  Righteousness  as  the  Angel  of  the  Church 
of  Pergamos. 

Verse  12.  "He  that  hath  the  sharp  sword  with  two  edges." 
*'With  the  sword  of  my  mouth."  These  refer  to  the  realm  of 
truth. 

Verse  13.  The  people  of  this  church  are  not  following  the 
law  in  perfection,  for  they  dwell  in  the  seat  of  Satan,  that  is  in 
the  carnal-sense  of  things.    But  they  are  commanded  to  hold  fast 


to  the  Christ-meaning  of  life-love-truth^  and  never  to  deny  it, 
even  in  the  fury  of  things  of  this  world. 

Verse  14.  But  I  have  a  few  things  against  thee^  the  acknowl- 
edgement of  mortality  and  spirituality^  as  both  being  real  and 
true^  also  idolatry,  adultery,  dualism,  hypocrisy.  These  being 
unlawful  as  thoughts  they  must  not  be  expressed. 

•Verse  16.  Repent,  that  is  turn  from  the  evil  and  know  the 
good,  for  if  we  do  not,  we  shall  experience  the  power  of  the  law 
against  us  to  destroy  our  error,  and  we  shall  suffer  in  the  fury 
of  its  prevailing. 

Verse  17.  To  him  who  obeys  this  head  of  the  law  of  right- 
eousness will  I  give  to  eat  of  the  hidden  manna,  that  is  the 
experience  of  the  love  of  truth,  and  he  shall  have  a  pure  white 
stone  given  unto  him  (Christ),  with  the  new  name  of  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  written  therein;  which  no  man  can  under- 
stand save  him  who  has  experienced  it. 

THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  LIFE  OF  TRUTH.     REV  2:18. 

The  Spirit  of  Dominion  as  the  Angel  of  the  Church 
of  Thyatira. 

Verse  18.  "Who  hath  his  eyes  like  unto  a  flame  of  fire." 
*'And  his  feet  are  like  fine  brass."  These  refer  to  the  realm 
of  truth. 

Verse  19-  I  know  thy  patience  and  thy  works,  and  the  last 
to  be  more  than  the  first,  for  the  healing  power  of  dominion  as 
proof  of  knowing  is  more  than  a  blind  faith  of  sense-belief  in  a 
theory  of  the  law.  For  the  Christ  demands  fruit  from  his  fol- 
lowers as  actual  facts  of  good  and  not  alone  the  sense  im- 
pressions of  that  which  seems  to  be  good.  The  Christ  has 
made  it  possible  for  us  to  produce  these  fruits  through  his  law. 

Verses  20  to  24.  After  revealing  the  death  which  lurks  in 
adultery,  also  in  all  opposition  to  the  law,  such  as  the  denial  of 
the  healing  power  of  truth,  he  says  that  as  we  sow  so  shall  we 
reap;  that  is  in  just  the  way  which  we  build  our  house  of  con- 
science either  of  good  or  evil,  so  shall  we  be  held  responsible 
and  receive  our  reward  accordingly. 

Verse  24.  On  as  many  as  have  not  this  doctrine  of  demon- 
strable knowledge  of  the  law,  but  who  are  good  in  the  intent  of 


their  hearts^  I  will  put  no  other  burden  than  that  they  hold 
fast  to  that  which  they  have  of  good. 

Verse  26.  Him  that  knows  dominion  as  the  life  of  truths 
and  has  gained  its  healing  power^  I  will  make  him  a  ruler  over 
many  nations. 

Verse  27.  He  shall  rule  with  this  rod  of  iron  and  break  in 
shivers  the  testimony  of  the  carnal  sense-mind  as  a  false  con- 
sciousness of  evil  in  the  appearance  of  material  conditions;  that 
is^  all  mortal  imaginations  shall  be  destroyed  therewith. 

Verse  28.  He  will  be  given  the  morning  star  {the  power  of 
dominion  in  knowing  the  Christ-presence),  In  Rev.  22:l6  we 
read  of  Jesus  as  the  morning  star. 

THE   CHURCH  OF  THE   TRUTH  OF  LIFE.     REV.   2:1. 

The  Spirit  of  Intelligence  as  the  Angel  of  the  Church 

of  Ephesus. 

Verse  1.  "Who  walketh  in  the  midst  of  the  seven  golden 
candlesticks.''  Verse  7.  "Will  I  give  to  eat  of  the  tree  of  life^ 
which  is  in  the  midst  of  the  paradise  of  God."  These  refer  to 
the  realm  of  light  or  life. 

Verse  2.  And  how  thou  canst  not  bear  them  which  express 
the  evil  of  ignorant  sense  in  opposition  to  spiritual  intelligence; 
for  thou  hast  tried  them  by  means  of  the  law  who  say  they  are 
christian  and  are  not^  and  hast  found  them  liars;  because  those 
who  really  know  the  law  can  manifest  it  and  do  the  works  of 
intelligence^  instead  of  mortal  imagination. 

Verse  4.  Because  thou  hast  left  thy  first  love^  the  love  and 
radiant  innocence  of  a  little  child_,  and  gone  over  to  the  testimony 
of  the  carnal  sense-mind  of  evil ;  to  live  in  the  material  conditions 
and  experiences  of  the  things  of  the  worlds  therefore  thou  art 
not  perfect. 

Verse  5.  Remember  therefore  from  whence  thou  art  fallen 
and  repent,  and  do  the  first  works  of  innocent  love,  for  if  not, 
the  light  of  spiritual  understanding  will  be  taken  away  from  you, 
and  you  will  be  left  in  the  darkness  of  confusion  and  fury  of 
mortality. 

Verse  7.  He  that  overcomes  will  I  give  to  eat  of  the  under- 
standing of  the  tree  of  life,  portrayed  in  the  law  of  righteousness 
and  shown  in  the  candlestick  and  Star  of  Bethlehem. 


THE    CHURCH    OF    THE    LOVE    OF    LIFE.     REV.    2:8. 

The   Spirit   of   Wisdom   as   the   Angel   of   the   Church 
of  Smyrna. 

Verse  8.  "Which  was  dead  and  is  alive."  Verse  10.  **I  will 
give  a  crown  of  life.'*     These  refer  to  the  realm  of  life. 

Verse  Q.  But  thou  art  rich  in  wisdom;  not  so  them  which 
say  that  they  are  children  of  Israel  and  are  not^  because  they 
live  in  the  sensations  of  materiality  and  are  therefore  of  the 
synagogue  of  Satan^  dwelling  in  the  animal  sense-mind  which 
blasphemes  against  the  law  of  Christ. 

Verse  10.  Fear  none  of  the  things  which  this  animal  sense- 
mind  shall  do  unto  you^  for  this  same  carnal-sense  shall  cast  you 
into  prison^  where  you  will  suffer  imtil  you  learn  to  obey  the 
heads  of  the  law,  as  given  in  the  Star  and  Candlestick;  wherein 
you  will  learn  how  to  overcome  all  evil;  and  being  faithful  unto 
the  end  will  gain  a  crown  of  life. 

Verse  11.  He  that  overcomes  the  bondage  of  mortal  imag- 
ination shall  not  be  hurt  of  the  second  death,  or  that  which  we 
commonly  know  as  death.  For  having  overcome  imperfect  con- 
cepts in  this  world  we  shall  continue  in  the  wisdom  gained  thereby 
after  giving  up  mortality. 

Now  comes  the  seventh  and  last  church,  as  the  final  step  in 
gaining  power  and  salvation  with  the  Christ.  This  church  ex- 
presses the  centers  of  the  realms  of  Life  as  Being,  Love  as  Holi- 
ness, and  Truth  as  Principle. 

THE   CHURCH   OF   LIFE,  LOVE,   TRUTH.     REV.   3:14. 
The   Spirit  of   Love-Truth-Life   as   the   Angel  of  the 

Church  of  Laodicea. 

« 

Verse  14.  **These  things  saith  the  Amen.*'  "The  beginning 
and  the  end."  (The  first  understanding  in  obedience  and  the 
end  in  wisdom).  These  refer  to  the  combined  expression  of 
the  whole  law  of  life,  love,  truth. 

Verse  15.  The  expression  of  the  people  in  this  last  church 
of  the  Christ  perfection  is  neither  hot  nor  cold,  being  indifferent 
and  self-satisfied.  The  followers  of  this  church  do  not  appreci- 
ate the  necessity  of  knowing  the  perfect  law  of  life,  love,  truth. 
Therefore,  because  the  people  of  today  do  not  make  an  effort 


to  understand  the  perfect  law  for  themselves^  and  are  not  anxious 
to  gain  the  knowledge  of  the  science  of  life,  then  shall  the  door 
of  spiritual  understanding  be  shut  to  them. 

Vejrse  17.  The  self-confidence  and  sufficiency  of  the  church 
today  in  worldly  aggrandizement  reveals  its  true  character,  to 
which  it  is  itself  darkened  and  made  blind.  It  does  not  know 
that  it  is  wretched  and  miserable,  and  poor,  and  blind,  and 
naked,  of  real  spirituality  in  expression  of  the  Christ-law.  And 
that  its  members  are  void  of  understanding  the  perfect  health 
and  peace  which  proceeds  from  knowing  this  law.  Because  it 
lifts  itself  up  in  its  own  pride,  worshiping  in  both  sense  and 
soul  expressions  of  evil  and  good,  then  it  shall  surely  die,  reap 
nothingness. 

Verse  18.  The  people  of  this  church  are  cautioned  by  the 
vision  to  buy  of  the  Christ-law;  gold  as  love  tried  in  the  fire  of 
truth,  which  is  to  reveal  the  perfection  of  the  law.  Also  to  buy 
white  raiment  that  they  may  be  clothed  in  love,  that  their  naked- 
ness of  hateful  mortality  may  not  appear.  And  last  to  anoint 
their  eyes  with  eye  salve,  that  is  their  understanding  with  the 
spirit  of  the  Christ-law;  that  they  may  know  the  spiritual  life 
in  Mind  in  preference  to  death  as  the  seeming  life  in  the  flesh. 

Here  we  see  that  all  three  parts  of  the  law  of  the  Christ- 
meaning  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection  are  re- 
quired as  a  soul  expression  before  we  are  eligible  and  worthy  to 
have  a  seat  with  the  Christ  in  his  throne. 

Verse  20.  Behold  I  stand  at  the  door  and  knock:  I,  the  law 
of  the  Christ  in  its  life-love-truth-meaning,  as  portrayed  by 
Moses  in  the  candlestick,  and  again  by  St.  John  in  his  vision, 
and  now  through  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  All  of  which  set  forth 
the  one  Christ-law  as  that  of  spiritual  righteousness  in  perfection. 

Verse  21.  To  him  that  overcomes  sense  impressions  through 
not  giving  to  them  his  allegiance,  and  then  learns  the  true  spir- 
itual law,  will  I  grant  to  sit  with  me  in  my  throne,  that  is  within 
the  true  Church  of  spiritual  expression  of  the  absolute  law  of 
perfection. 

Before  the  reader  will  be  able  to  grasp  this  law  of  the  Christ 
and  use  it  with  dominion  there  are  three  things  which  it  will  be 
necessary  for  him  to  consider  well,  them  overcome,  for  we  can- 
not serve  two  laws  and  abide  within  either  one. 


Firsts  we  must  gain  the  consent  of  ourselves  to  desire  and 
serve  the  good;  we  must  agree  with  ourselves  that  we  do  not 
want  the  evil^  for  to  follow  perfection  is  the  one  way  to  success. 

Second^  as  the  demands  of  a  law  of  perfection  are  tremen- 
dous and  tolerate  no  compromise  with  us,  we  shall  find  the  strain 
against  mortal  self  to  be  almost  unbearable,  and  it  will  stir  our 
mortal  wrath  from  its  very  depths,  unless  we  have  gained  the 
consent  of  mortal-self  to  step  aside  and  let  the  law  come  in  and 
purify  us  in  its  own  way.     This  we  must  do. 

Third.  We  must  arise  above  all  mortal  or  man-made  laws, 
as  the  **Thou  shalt,'*  and  "Thou  shalt  not'*  commands,  which 
come  from  a  material  source  and  are  sure  to  offend  because  they 
oppose  Christ's  law  of  love.  Unless  we  rid  ourselves  of  this 
source  of  coercion  and  fear,  through  ceasing  to  give  it  our 
allegiance  we  cannot  understand  the  following  Christ-law  of 
perfection  and  gain  its  dominion. 

The  perfect  Christ-law  of  righteousness  is  complete  and  suf- 
ficient for  every  need,  and  already  has  prevailed  over  the  world 
laws;  we  are  all  glad  and  willing  to  serve  Christ;  but  let  not 
mortals  interfere  in  this  service  with  any  "Thou  shalt,"  or  "Thou 
shalt  not,"  coercion. 

The  Star  of  Bethlehem  is  a  symbol  diagram  made  to  repre- 
sent the  Christ-law.  Its  chief  value  is  to  aid  us  in  holding  our 
thought-expressions  in  order  and  regularity,  but  when  we  have 
gained  a  soul-expression  of  the  law  we  need  no  longer  the  chart 
and  it  can  be  laid  aside. 

Until  that  time  comes  in  the  experience  of  each  individual 
conscience,  the  universal,  impersonal  and  undenominational  char- 
acter of  this  diagram,  in  its  revelation  of  the  life-love-truth-mean- 
ing of  the  Christ-law,  should  be  acceptable  to  anyone  without 
offense;  and  surely  will  be  to  those  who  have  overcome  self, 
limitation  and  mortal  coercion. 

WM.  M.  KELLOGG. 


CHAPTER  I. 

MIND 

The  Father-Mind;  as  Soul;  God;  Spirit. 

Mind  is  the  supreme  law  of  perfection  as  constructive  good. 
It  is  self -expressed  in  the  thinking  Soul  as  Life,  or  all  action; 
in  substantial  Good  as  Love,  or  all  substance;  and  in  the  power 
of  Spirit  as  Truth,  or  all  perfection. 

The  world  today  is  fast  breaking  away  from  the  domination 
and  bondage  of  material  sense-testimony,  which  has  been  taught 
and  preached  to  it  from  the  beginning.  The  revolt  is  because 
of  the  unsatisfactory  results  of  unlawful  effort  to  express  a  state 
of  imperfection  and  a  state  of  perfection  also,  from  the  one  source 
of  a  living  and  perfect  God  as  Mind. 

The  testimony  of  good  and  evil,  coming  from  whatsoever  source 
it  may,  results  in  a  dual  consciousness  of  utter  confusion,  from 
which  everyone  would  escape.  It  is  the  object  of  this  book  to 
point  out  a  definite  and  positive  way  to  escape. 

We  were  commanded  to  walk^  that  is  to  live  in  the  law  of 
Mind's  perfection,  and  therein  to  discover  our  own  perfection 
in  its  image  and  likeness  of  intelligence,  eschewing  all  mortal 
imaginations.  But  because  of  having  a  free  volition  as  the  active 
will  of  life,  we  are  tempted  through  ignorance  or  mal-suggestion 
to  direct  our  thoughts  into  an  unlawful  channel  of  imperfection, 
that  is  into  concepts  of  destructive  things,  instead  of  into  con- 
cepts of  constructive  things,  wherein  we  experience  sin  and  suffer. 

This  attempt  to  use  our  God-given  gift  of  thought  or  life-action 
in  an  unlawful  channel,  with  the  intent  to  express  evil,  is  our 
sin  and  disobedience  to  the  command,  **Walk  before  me  and  be 
thou  perfect.*' 

For  this  disobedience  we  suffer  in  fear  because  mortal  imag- 
inations of  evil  are  unlawful,  and  as  an  effort  to  express  the 


^>  ^  *  »,  '  :  '  T HE  Christ-Law 

absence  of  good  we  lose  our  connection  with  God  and  experience 
fear. 

This  attempt  to  guide  our  God-given  gift^  our  sacred  trust  of 
thought-action  into  an  unlawful  channel,  believing  that  we  can 
derive  good  fruit  from  an  evil  intent  (and  because  of  this  belief 
strive  to  make  an  unlawful  thing  to  become  lawful,  which  means 
to  do  evil  deeds  that  good  may  come  from  it)  is  that  which 
constitutes  the  testimony  of  the  carnal-mind.  Its  seeming  action 
is  our  own  misguided  life-action,  given  to  express  evil  thoughts 
because  we  are  enticed  by  the  deceiving  sense;  which  constantly 
suggests  to  us  that  we  lend  to  it  of  our  God-given  gift  of  life- 
action  in  thought,  that  it  may  have  seeming  action  in  its  intent 
of  destruction,  and  thereby  destroy,  that  is  hide  from  us,  our 
own  rightful  life-action  of  mind. 

But  we  must  not  forget  that  the  supreme  law  of  perfection 
does  not  act  upon  that  which  it  did  not  make,  such  as  impotent 
mortal  imaginations.  Moreover,  we  find  that  we  cannot  think, 
that  is  give  a  life-love-truth-meaning  to  any  evil  thing,  as  hate, 
envy,  ignorance,  etc.,  even  if  we  should  will  to  do  so,  because 
these  evil  things  cannot  be  known  as  constructive  good.  Their 
whole  intent  is  nothingness,  and  cannot  therefore  be  any  part  of 
one  constructive  Mind. 

We  will  experiment  upon  the  experience  of  unlawful  sensa- 
tions, and  endure  their  reward  of  suffering,  until  we  learn  to 
follow  the  law  of  Christ's  perfection,  for  therein  lies  our  right- 
ful dominion  over  all  evil.  Therein  we  will  behold  hate  and 
ignorance  as  the  absence  of  intelligence,  and  to  us  it  is  absent 
intelligence  because  we  did  not  use  our  gift  of  thought-action 
to  express  it. 

When  we  awake  to  our  dominion  of  Mind,  then  will  we  arise 
and  ask  every  evil  thing  this  question,  "What  is  the  life-love- 
truth-meaning  in  you?"  This  will  reveal  its  nothingness  to  us 
and  will  recall  us  to  the  presence  of  Christ,  wherein  we  will 
lose  our  fear  of  the  evil  appearance.  In  this  way  shall  we 
learn  to  look  with  the  intent  to  see  the  Christ  meaning  only 
in  things,  and  God's  creations  will  become  good;  for  we  have 
learned  to  look  for  the  good  instead  of  the  evil  appearance. 


Mind  25 

People  are  turning  more  and  more  to  the  law  of  the  Christ 
in  an  effort  to  live  within  its  purity  and  perfection^  that  they 
may  abide  within  the  secret  place  of  the  living  soul^  even  within 
conscience.  For  herein  alone  do  we  receive  from  the  Holy 
Ghost  the  testimony  of  truth  as  a  law  of  perfection^  which  was, 
and  is,  and  ever  will  be  our  one  and  only  source  of  knowing 
the  Christ-law. 

People  are  beginning  to  realize  that  their  own  selfhood  is  a 
living,  thinking,  conscience;  an  active  soul-entity  entirely  spir- 
itual, and  in  close  and  constant  unity  with  the  one  ruling  Mind, 
even  our  divine  Father  through  his  Christ.  Our  lives  are  won- 
derfully and  beautifully  attuned  to  perfect  harmony  with  this 
supreme  law  of  perfection  as  one  constructive  good  and  with 
this  alone. 

Mortals  can  neither  give  nor  receive  a  final  testimony  from 
each  other,  for  this  power  of  spiritual  communication  belongs  to 
the  Holy  Ghost  alone;  and  every  allegiance  to  any  mortal  for 
any  purpose  whatsoever  surely  will  vitiate  our  pure  concept 
of  one  service  to  Christ.  When  we  reach  this  point  of  true 
unadulterated  service  to  the  Christ  perfection,  as  a  supreme  law 
of  life,  love,  truth  wherein  material  conditions  and  laws  do  not 
appear,  we  will  cease  to  be  afraid  and  come  into  our  own  right- 
ful inheritance  of  spiritual  understanding.  It  is  necessary  that 
we  find  freedom  from  mortals  and  their  repressive,  coercive  laws, 
before  we  can  have  a  clear  concept  of  Christ  and  his  wonderful 
love. 

Now,  just  what  is  Mind.f*  Mind  is  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection.  And  the  law  of  Mind  is  herein  revealed  through 
this  fact,  that  when  we  separate  Mind  from  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection,  as  the  law  of  its  Christ  meaning, 
then  we  have  eliminated  our  one  and  only  way  of  understand- 
ing what  Mind  means.  If  this  law  or  fact  is  true  in  regard 
to  Mind,  that  is  that  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection 
are  required  to  give  Mind  a  meaning,  then  it  must  be  true  in 
every  integral  part  of  Mind,  and  herein  is  the  way  of  the  law 
established  and  pure  and  undefiled  language  expressed.  This 
pure  language  of  the   Christ-Mind  is   developed  and  expanded 


26  The  Christ-Law 

through  the  requirement  of  the  law,  which  is  that  for  every 
idea  of  Mind  there  shall  be  given  three  other  ideas,  each  one 
of  which  is  to  represent  either  a  life-action,  love-substance,  or 
truth-perfection  meaning  of  this  particular  idea.  From  this 
it  can  be  seen  that  every  idea  has  its  rightful  place  in  the  table 
of  Mind  ideas,  in  just  the  same  way  that  2  times  2  equals  4, 
has  its  rightful  place  in  the  multiplication  table.  This  develop- 
ment of  Mind  ideas  goes  on  into  infinite  expression  and  spir- 
itual experience  of  that  which  eye  hath  not  seen,  nor  ear  heard, 
neither  hath  it  entered  into  the  conscience  of  men  as  yet,  but 
is  to  come  to  all  those  who  love  good. 

Jesus  speaking  as  the  Christ  said  in  John  10:30,  **I  and  the 
Father  are  one."  Again  in  John  14:6,  "I  am  the  way,  the 
truth  and  the  life:  no  man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me." 

From  this  we  are  to  learn  that  the  counterparts  of  Mind  are 
Life,  Love,  Truth;  and  this  is  given  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem 
as  the  first  revelation  of  Mind,  the  first  offspring  from  Mind 
in  its  revelation  unto  men.  No  one  shall  be  able  to  understand 
the  perfect  meaning  of  Mind  or  its  infinite  ideas,  except  through 
the  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection-meaning.  Herein 
is  the  law  of  Mind's  development  revealed,  for  every  perfect 
idea  must  have  this  one  triune  meaning  in  its  perfection. 

This  establishes  the  law  and  the  way  of  the  law  to  be  soul 
experiences  of  spiritual  being  only;  therefore  all  mortal  sensa- 
tions and  carnal  imaginations  of  material  conditions  cannot  be 
considered  as  a  part  of  Mind. 

That  all  of  God's  word,  as  Mind  and  its  infinite  ideas,  are 
already  established  as  an  indestructible  law  within  our  heart's 
conscience  is  undeniable;  and  that  it  has  nothing  to  do  with  the 
great  mass  of  mortal  imaginations  follows  as  a  necessary  result 
of  the  allness  of  Mind. 

Mind  is  a  supreme  law  of  one  perfect  state  of  being  self- 
evident  and  final  in  its  testimony  to  its  offspring  or  children, 
who  alone  can  understand  and  realize  its  messages. 

In  Gen.  2:17  we  read:  "But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge  of 
good  and  evil  thou  shalt  not  eat  of  it;  for  in  the  day  that  thou 
eatest  thereof  thou  shalt  surely  die."     This  means  that  to  give 


Mind  27 

our  allegiance  to  the  testimony  of  both  sense  and  soul  is  to 
abide  in  confusion  and  to  suffer  in  the  fury  of  death  because 
of  opposing  laws. 

To  exercise  our  life-action  or  mind  upon  unlawful  appear- 
ances of  evil  is  to  produce  a  false  sense  of  nothingness,  known 
as  mortal  imagination  or  death;  but  when  guided  into  lawful 
channels  of  the  perfect  law  of  Christ  ideas  then  we  live  in 
righteous  states  of  perfect  being  and  are  made  perfect  therein. 

To  understand  Mind  as  a  perfect  law  or  principle  of  ideas 
we  have  but  to  look  over  our  experience  in  applying  principle 
to  mathematics,  music,  and  other  subjects;  wherein  we  get  a 
glimpse  of  the  dominion  of  principle  as  Mind-action-substance- 
perfection. 

When  we  realize  that  this  same  law  can  be  applied  to  thoughts, 
as  well  as  to  numbers,  sounds,  etc.,  then  are  we  beginning  to 
look  at  the  subject  in  the  right  light  and  on  the  road  to  master 
the  fact  of  right  living. 

We  already  realize  that  the  base  or  foundation  of  the  prin- 
ciple of  music  is  harmony,  as  a  perfect  love  thought;  and  with- 
out harmony  there  can  be  no  music  as  a  song  of  the  soul.  We 
also  know  that  we  must  use  the  correct  symbols  only,  and  in 
accordance  with  the  law  or  principle  of  music;  otherwise  there 
is  no  music  but  a  discordant  noise  as  a  mortal  sensation  having 
no  lawful  meaning  of  harmony. 

The  principle  of  numbers  is  already  familiar  to  the  reader, 
and  he  knows  that  the  essential  part  of  all  operations  is  included 
in  the  act  of  addition  and  subtraction;  this  is  the  basis  of 
all  work,  and  no  problems  can  be  solved  without  its  use.  We 
also  know  that  it  is  very  necessary  to  use  the  correct  symbols 
and  follow  the  law  or  rule  absolutely,  for  if  we  do  not  there 
is  nothing  done,  that  is  no  truth  manifested. 

But  how  about  principle  as  applied  to  spiritual  thoughts  as 
the  things  of  Mind,  thought-entities  as  states  of  spiritual  con- 
sciousness? Has  this  subject  a  base  or  foundation  also.f^  Yes, 
indeed.  It  is  life-action,  love-»ubstance,  truth-perfection.  And 
by  means  of  these  basic  states  of  being  every  true  problem  in 
life  can  be  solved  correctly,  but,  as  it  is  in  music  and  mathe- 


28  The  Christ-Law 

matics,  we  are  obliged  to  use  the  symbols  which  are  peculiar 
to  this  special  subject  and  according  to  the  law's  absoluteness. 

The  symbols  of  this  principle  of  thoughts  are  every  perfect 
and  right  idea  in  Mind,  and  without  these  right  ideas,  and  their 
correct  use,  according  to  the  law  of  the  one  Christ  meaning  of 
life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection,  nothing  can  be  un- 
derstood about  Mind  or  the  infinite  creations  of  Mind. 

There  is  one  very  decided  difference  in  the  application  of 
principle  to  these  three  subjects,  it  is  this,  that  a  wicked  and 
defiled  consciousness  can  become  expert  materially  in  the  mani- 
festation of  both  music  and  mathematics  and  still  ^  retain  its 
uncleanness.  But  no  unclean  and  defiled  person  can  pass  over 
this  principle  of  the  Christ-law  of  constructive  good  and  retain 
his  uncleanness,  and  none  ever  will,  for  the  very  power  of 
healing  in  the  law  will  eradicate  all  evil  and  uncleanness.  It  is 
not  a  law  of  this  world's  imperfection,  but  of  the  world  of 
perfection. 

Now,  is  this  law  of  the  Christ-Mind  easy  to  attain.'^  Yes, 
it  is  easy.  But  not  in  a  material  way,  for  all  material  con- 
cepts are  but  confusion  and  the  fury  of  death,  and  none  of 
them  can  be  understood.  The  way  of  the  heart's  expression 
of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection  is  easy  because 
it  is  right  and  much  desired,  and  what  is  easier  or  more  beauti- 
ful than  to  love  constructive  good.'*  Do  not  all  people  love 
good,  even  if  they  have  a  false  concept  of  just  what  good  is,  it 
is  the  good  that  they  are  looking  for,  and  that  which  they 
love,  for  good  is  love. 

When  we  lay  aside  the  imperfect  concepts  and  seek  after  the 
perfect  only,  then  shall  we  get  a  right  understanding  of  good. 

We  often  hear  of  "on  the  way  there  ideas,"  which  is  mislead- 
ing to  many  because  every  perfect  idea  is  an  on  the  way  there 
idea,  and  an  imperfect  idea  will  never  lead  you  there.  Good 
and  right  alone  have  being,  and  their  absolute  perfection  alone 
teach  us  progress;  we  do  not  know  2  times  2  to  be  almost  4, 
neither  do  we  know  it  at  all  until  we  know  it  to  be  perfectly  4. 
This  reveals  the  fact  that  sense  imperfections  as  the  confus- 
ion of  mortal  testimony  cannot  teach  us  anything. 


Mind  29 

In  applying  this  same  thought  in  another  way  we  find  that 
we  cannot  know  honesty  in  any  degree  of  dishonesty,  and  we 
do  not  know  honesty  at  all  until  we  know  it  alone  in  its  Christ- 
meaning,  as  the  love  of  righteousness.  We  are  not  and  cannot 
really  be  honest  until  we  understand  and  accept  honesty  as 
the  love  of  true  righteousness.  When  we  thoroughly  love  right- 
eousness to  the  point  of  knowing  its  perfection  in  manifesting 
good,  then  will  we  be  honest.  Honesty  based  upon  the  power 
of  the  police  force^  or  upon  the  limits  of  material  law  as  license, 
is  not  honesty  but  straight  dishonesty,  for  there  is  no  love 
of  right  in  it. 

Jesus  said  for  us  to  be  perfect  and  not  to  excuse  ourselves 
with  on  the  way  there  ideas,  those  diluted  with  mortal  self-will 
or  impotence. 

This  supreme  law  of  perfection  as  a  principle  of  Mind 
ideas,  which  are  to  us  as  states  of  conscious  being,  high  above 
all  other  knowledge  and  exalted  in  the  last  degree  of  truth 
as  absolute  perfection;  is  the  most  important  of  all  things  to 
know.  And  as  it  is  a  perfect  principle,  then  it  can  be  known 
perfectly  and  learned  with  certainty;  indeed  it  cannot  be  ob- 
tained in  any  other  way. 

Jesus  said  in  John  16:7,  "It  is  expedient  for  you  that  I  go 
away,  for  if  I  go  not  away,  the  Comforter  will  not  come  unto 
you;  but  if  I  depart  I  will  send  him  unto  you."  That  is  He  will 
send  the  universal  concept  of  the  power  of  Mind  expressed  as 
a  law  of  life,  love,  truth. 

When  the  Comforter  has  come  into  each  individual  heart,  then 
shall  we  realize  that  it  was  expedient  for  us  to  lose  our  mortal 
concept  of  the  Christ  consciousness  as  a  material  being  of  flesh 
and  blood,  bound  by  the  deceiving-sense  to  one  place  and  time, 
as  the  man  Jesus;  for  this  false  mortal  concept  would  limit  our 
understanding  of  the  universal  Christ  as  Spirit,  who  is  ever- 
present  everywhere  as  the  perfect  law  of  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, and  truth-perfection. 

Therefore  Mind  is  the  supreme  law  of  Life,  Love,  Truth 
because  the  Father  and  Christ  are  one.  This  law  covers  every 
phase  of  spiritual  being  and  is  portrayed  in  the  diagram  of  the 


so  The  Christ-Law 

Star  of  Bethlehem.  Each  one  of  the  heads  of  the  law  in  the 
nine  points  of  the  Star  represent  a  phase  of  Mind's  perfect 
beings  and  when  we  have  mastered  their  expression  then  we 
shall  have  a  true  concept  of  just  what  the  Father-Mind  as 
Spirit  is. 

Analysis  of  the  Concepts  of  Mind  and  Imagination. 

In  the  following  section  of  this  work  the  reader  is  to  be  led 
through  a  course  of  reasoning^  intended  to  reveal  the  allness  of 
the  right  and  good  and  the  nothingness  of  the  evil  and  wrong; 
so  that  we  may  be  able  to  give  our  allegiance  to  the  rights  and 
know  it  alone  as  worthy^  and  also  why  it  is  worthy.  We  are 
to  gain  an  understanding  of  the  real  life  in  Mind,  which  is  our 
immortal  state  of  being  and  which  is  never  to  be  lost. 

This  section  is  of  great  importance,  and  the  work  of  the  law 
found  herein  is  the  separation  of  the  good  from  the  evil. 

That  which  opposes  the  concept  of  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit 
most  strenuously  is  the  force  of  material  appearance  as  matter; 
and  for  this  reason  it  is  necessary  for  us  to  understand  that 
matter  in  all  its  sense-appearance  is  but  an  infinite  combina- 
tion of  points  of  force,  from  the  universe  in  tremendous  revolu- 
tion down  to  ions  in  the  same  vibratory  action.  The  seeming 
substance  of  matter  is  but  the  force  given  out  by  these  vibra- 
tions. Now,  behind  this  force,  as  material  appearance,  which  is 
called  matter,  is  the  reality  of  being  as  the  power  of  Spirit 
in  Intelligence  which  we  know  as  Mind.  This  fact  must  be 
realized,  that  when  we  view  the  material  appearance  as  sub- 
stantial matter  we  are  blinded  by  it  and  unable  to  perceive  the 
spiritual  truth  behind  it;  and  the  reverse  of  this  statement  is 
also  true,  for  when  we  see  the  truth  of  the  spiritual  presence 
we  cannot  longer  acknowledge  matter  as  real  and  true,  or  as 
substantial  presence,  for  it  will  have  to  give  way  to  the  truth. 

Apparently  we  have  two  ways  of  receiving  testimony,  one  is 
through  the  five  material  senses,  which  are  organs  intended  to 
catch  and  record  on  the  brain  all  manner  of  material  vibra- 
tions, both  good  and  bad,  indiscriminately;  and  mortals  are 
helpless    to    resist   these    testimonies    from   the    realm    of    outer 


Mind  SI 

darkness.  Their  meaning  to  us  because  of  sense  interpretation 
of  both  good  and  evil  is  one  of  utter  confusion,  and  through 
mortality  or  the  living  in  the  interpretation  of  sense,  there  is 
no  escape  or  help.  This  confusion  is  because  of  the  constant 
change  of  matter  which  we  do  not  understand. 

Another  way  of  receiving  testimony  and  information  is  through 
the  soul  or  spiritual  conscience;  which  does  not  testify  of  any 
material  appearance,  known  as  the  ever  transitory  matter ;  but 
does  testify  of  true  states  of  spiritual  being,  such  as  a  realized 
consciousness  of  honesty,  purity,  order,  etc.  These  are  states 
of  being  which  cannot  be  tasted,  smelled,  seen,  heard,  or  felt 
with  the  fingers,  in  a  material  way,  that  is  by  means  of  material 
force. 

Now,  when  we  consider  the  ideas  of  the  infallible  law  of 
spiritual  being  as  the  one  law  of  right,  to  be  all,  then  must  we 
of  a  necessity  lose  sight  of  the  concept  of  right  and  wrong,  which 
is  constantly  suggested  to  us  by  some  condition  of  material 
appearance.  , 

Matter,  as  a  sense  interpretation  of  a  real  and  true  spiritual 
state  of  being,  must  be  a  false  and  imperfect  testimony,  because 
it  is  obtained  through  the  imperfected  sense  of  mortals.  Mat- 
ter therefore  is  but  the  result  of  a  false  interpretation  and  has 
no  other  substance  but  the  force  of  a  belief  which  is  in  con- 
stant change.  This  is  the  cause  of  our  concepts  of  good  and 
evil,  and  is  that  from  which  we  must  be  delivered. 

Matter  is  but  the  shadow  of  that  which  is  there  in  truth, 
and  has  no  more  to  do  with  real  spiritual  being  than  the  shadow 
of  a  tree  has  to  do  with  the  tree.  We  must  learn  to  overlook 
the  shadow  of  matter  as  material  appearance,  because  of  its  dark- 
ening effect,  and  behold  all  things  in  ,the  light  of  one  true 
spiritual  law.  As  our  interpretations  are,  so  will  we  be  guided 
and  led  to  give  our  allegiance,  either  to  spiritual  being  or  to 
material  sensations,  as  the  things  real  and  true. 

Jesus  said  that  a  kingdom  divided  against  itself  would  be 
brought  to  desolation,  also  that  our  own  house  of  conscience 
would  suffer  the  same  fate;  if  we  made  ourselves  servants  to 
obey  the  testimony  of  both  sense  and  soul  interpretations.     This 


32  The  Christ-Law 

would  be  a  divided  house  and  would  reap  the  reward  of  deso- 
lation in  utter  confusion^  which  in  turn  would  work  our  certain 
destruction. 

From  now  on  our  full  effort  must  be  given  to  separating 
material  concepts  from  spiritual  concepts  that  we  may  learn 
to  give  our  allegiance  to  the  spiritual  ones  alone.  They  compose 
God's  perfect  law  of  righteousness  and  lead  us  into  perfection, 
wherein  we  lose  our  sense  of  fear  because  of  association  with 
changeable  conditions  of  matter. 

This  will  come  about  gradually  and  slowly  at  first,  because 
it  is  difficult  to  gain  our  consent  to  stop  indulging  in  habits 
which  have  been  so  constantly  in  use  that  they  seem  a  part  of 
us;  but  as  we  take  into  consciousness  the  Christ-law  we  will  find 
that  this  law  will  crowd  out  the  evil  concepts  of  mortality. 

The  substance  of  matter  is  but  the  substance  of  a  changeable 
belief,  which  is  the  result  of  imperfect  sense  interpretation,  so 
that  which  appears  to  be  matter  is  really  spiritual.  But  matter 
as  matter,  a  false  concept,  cannot  have  entity  with  power  in  its 
own  right,  for  if  it  had  power  then  there  would  be  two  powers, 
one  of  good  and  one  of  evil.  It  is  inconceivable  to  think  of  two  laws 
as  powers,  each  prevailing  against  the  other,  for  good  cannot 
be  bad,  neither  can  bad  be  good,  neither  is  there  a  good  and  a  bad 
God,  as  a  power  of  Spirit  of  one  perfection.  Because  a  right 
and  a  wrong  God  is  impossible.  One  trait  or  the  other  must 
give  way,  and  our  Saviour  said  that  he  had  made  the  bad  to 
give  way.  We  can  profit  through  his  law  of  right  in  righteous- 
ness, not  right  and  wrong,  Spirit  and  matter,  but  Spirit  alone 
in  the  living  of  the  Christ-law  of  one  good. 

Jesus  said  that  that  which  was  born  of  the  flesh  was  flesh 
and  so  must  abide  in  the  flesh  interpretation,  never  anything 
more;  but  that  that  which  is  born  of  the  Spirit  is  spirit  and 
must  abide  in  the  spiritual  interpretation.  Therefore  our  work 
is  to  separate  the  things  of  material  interpretation  from  those 
of  the  spiritual  interpretation  to  be  able  to  discover  our  own 
spiritual  perfection,  for  we  are  commanded  to  walk  in  this 
perfection  and  partake  of  the  dominion  which  it  gives  forth. 


Mind  SS 

Now_,  just  how  can  we  lose  our  concept  of  matter  as  an  entity 
having  power  in  its  own  right^  and  gain  a  concept  of  Spirit  as 
all  power  having  real  dominion  in  its  own  right  to  rule  the  uni- 
verse in  perfection? 

Matter  and  all  of  its  testimony  is  but  an  appearance  which 
comes  into  sight  for  a  time  and  then  goes  out  of  sight.  Its 
forms  come  within  the  range  of  the  mortal  sense  and  then  go 
out  of  that  range;  but  our  Saviour  said  that  we  were  not  to 
judge  through  sense  appearance,  but  rather  through  spiritual 
perception  of  the  Christ-law  as  righteousness. 

Truth  and  right,  as  the  law  of  presence,  can  be  known  and 
used  in  a  practical  way,  even  in  this  state  of  existence,  for  we 
know  that  the  truth  about  anything  is  permanent  and  present 
at  all  times;  this  excludes  all  testimony  of  material  appearance, 
for  it  cannot  be  trusted.  Not  until  we  have  reduced  our  concept 
of  matter  to  a  form  of  spiritual  progress,  in  which  matter  loses 
its  substance  and  spirit  takes  its  place,  can  we  get  away  from 
matter  as  a  sense  belief  of  that  which  has  beginning  and  end, 
fearing  the  end  as  a  final  oblivion. 

Matter  in  the  spiritual  concept  is  a  revelation  from  the  store- 
house of  Mind,  and  we  must  be  very  careful  that  we  give  to  it 
the  spiritual  interpretation,  because  the  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection  of  it  is  all  that  is  lawful  to  know. 
Jesus  said  that  unless  a  grain  of  wheat  fell  into  the  ground 
and  came  forth  as  many  more,  it  abode  alone;  that  is  was  not 
kept  in  revelation. 

Spirit  will  answer  any  question  satisfactorily,  while  matter  will 
answer  none  because  of  its  deceptive  appearance.  Spirit  as  law 
is  the  cause  of  every  bit  of  perfect  presence,  it  is  the  very 
substance  of  all  presence;  while  matter  testifies  of  absence  in 
constant  destruction^  the  ultimate  of  which  is  a  concept  of  noth- 
ingness. Things  do  not  cease  to  have  being  because  of  the 
power  of  Spirit  to  hold  them  in  perfection,  therefore  the  world 
is  real  and  true,  but  as  spirit  only,  in  the  spiritual  concept. 
The  First  Table  of  the  Law 

The  following  table  is  the  first  revelation  of  Mind's  meaning 
to  men,  according  to  the   Christ-law  of  life,  love,  truth.      It  is 


34  The  Christ-Law 

intended  to  be  committed  to  memory  in  the  same  way  that  we 
committed  the  multiplication  table^  so  that  we  may  have  i\ 
firmly  fixed  in  conscience^  ready  for  use  in  time  of  need^  tc 
prevail  against  the  evil  sense-suggestions. 

Even  as  we  learned  the  multiplication  table  we  are  to  lean 
these  also^  for  there  is  a  very  great  similarity  in  the  two.  Wt 
need  to  learn  and  use  them  both  in  order  to  become  expert  ir 
their  use  and  be  able  to  manifest  the  good  which  both  express 
and  partake  of  their  dominion. 

At  the  end  of  each  chapter  will  be  found  the  table  whicl 
amplifies  that  head  of  the  law^  and  time  should  be  spent  with 
it  in  order  to  profit  in  spiritual  expression ;  for  they  express 
not  only  the  letter  of  the  law  but  the  spirit  also. 

From  this  center  of  the  law  as  Mind,  goes  forth  in  infinite 
radiation  every  idea  of  Mind  as  a  perfect  state  of  spiritual 
being;  reaching  to  the  farthest  distance  of  Mind's  development 
and  giving  the  life-love-truth-law  as  the  substance  of  the  perfed 
Christ. 

Table  One. 

The  action  of  Mind  equals  Life. 
The  substance  of  Mind  equals  Love. 
The  perfection  of  Mind  equals  Truth. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  Mind 
are  Life,  Love,  Truth.  All  of  which  are  in  the  realm  of  Mine] 
and  are  Mind.  These  are  the  first  revelation  to  man  of  Mind's 
perfect  meaning. 

This  table  is  the  beginning  of  the  one  righteous  law  of  the 
Christ  and  is  to  be  carried  on  in  other  circles  of  development, 
even  into  infinite  expression  of  God's  word. 

This  work  will  be  the  immortal  existence  with  which  we  are 
promised  and  the  progress  of  each  individual  depends  upon  theii 
earnestness  in  service  to  God.  We  must  not  forget  that  all  of 
God's  word  is  inherent  within  our  own  conscience  waiting  to  be 
uncovered  from  sense  concepts  which  have  blinded  and  hidden 
from  us  our  real  and  true  being  in  the  likeness  of  Mind. 


CHAPTER    II. 

LIFE 

The   Action   of   Mind. 

Life  equals  the  action  of  Mind  as  "I  Will." 

Our  active  conscience  is  the  reflected  image  of  the  thinking 
Soul  as  Omniscience. 

That  spontaneous  volition  or  will  of  life  to  live^  as  the  will  of 
good,  is  the  source  of  all  action  anywhere  to  be  found  in  the  uni- 
verse, for  it  is  the  living  universe  in  all  of  its  active  phases  of 
spiritual  expression ;  the  living  presence  of  all  things  revealed  and 
unrevealed. 

This  law  of  the  spirit  of  God,  as  the  Mind  of  good,  presents 
itself  to  our  conscience  through  life's  action  in  a  principle  of  per- 
fect idea  entities,  which  constitute  our  states  of  spiritual  being 
as  soul  experiences  of  life,  love,  truth.  This  principle  is  based 
upon  deductive  idealism,  that  is,  that  these  ideas  originate  and 
are  constantly  in  radiation  from  one  source  and  center  of  life- 
action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection  called  Mind. 

Life  as  active  Mind  is  the  one  and  only  active  Being  which  is 
able  to  give  us  an  understanding  that  will  stand  and  prevail.  So 
let  us  consider  this  one  and  only  source  of  authoritative  testi- 
mony, which  is  the  voice  of  the  Spirit  of  truth  as  the  Holy  Ghost 
speaking  within  our  conscience,  and  always  declaring  this  one 
supreme  law  of  perfection  as  our  means  of  perfect  guidance. 
Even  within  the  secret  place  of  active  knowing  do  we  listen  with 
reverence  to  its  testimony;  therefore  it  is  absolutely  necessary 
that  we  have  this  understanding  consciousness,  from  which  to 
work  out  our  problems  with  certainty,  and  to  be  able  to  grasp 
quickly  the  revelations  of  the  law  which  are  given  unto  us.  This 
dominion  of  Mind's  action  teaches  its  offspring  all  that  it  is  to 
know  through  a  perfect  law  of  spiritual  prevailing. 


S6  The  Christ-Law 

The  Bible  and  all  other  religious  writings  based  thereon  are 
records  of  this  testimony^  given  to  those  who  through  obedience 
have  fitted  themselves  to  receive  it;  and  when  we  read  these  same 
records  we  do  not  believe  them  simply  because  we  have  read 
them^  but  because  within  the  secret  place  of  understandings  we 
come  in  contact  with  the  approval  of  the  testimony  of  Spirit  with 
our  spirit^  which  is  our  one  place  of  final  testimony.  And  therein 
do  we  receive  a  knowing  which  we  cannot  deny  neither  argue 
with,  for  it  is  final  and  satis fying,  and  constitutes  our  spiritual 
perception  as  true  understanding. 

Active  life,  that  power  of  Mind  which  does  all  that  is  done;  if 
directed  into  the  channel  of  material  personality  in  obedience 
and  allegiance  to  any  temporal  power,  feeling  compelled  to  serve 
this  personality,  cannot  but  instill  fear  into  our  being,  because 
of  its  imperfection  and  helplessness. 

It  will  cause  fear  because  we  are  not  given  any  material  means 
by  which  we  can  surely  and  certainly  receive  a  final  testimony  of 
knowing  through  personality,  and  trust  it  implicitly. 

Therefore  on  the  day  that  we  cease  to  give  our  allegiance  as 
the  will  of  life-action  with  intent  to  serve  man  made  laws,  social" 
demands,  chronic  habits,  etc.,  and  accept  unconditionally  the  law 
of  spiritual  perfection  in  the  image  of  the  Christ-meaning  of 
life,  love,  truth,  shall  we  cease  our  fear  and  come  into  our  in- 
heritance of  a   realized  soul  experience   of   good. 

This  law  of  rightful  guidance  will  cover  all  others  and  sub- 
ordinate them  to  its  influence  so  that  they  will  become  superflu- 
ous; it  will  reveal  their  impotence  as  uncertain  props,  and  mere 
excuses  to  serve  other  gods. 

These  man  made  laws  are  a  blighting  incubus  of  fear  to  all 
those  who  come  under  their  influence,  for  their  intent  is  one  of 
material  coercion  to   gratify   the   self-will   of  mortals. 

So  let  us  consider  the  action  of  Mind  as  all  power,  as  the  act 
of  a  soul  experience  and  understand  wherein  it  is  all  power;  for 
our  sure  foundation  is  based  upon  our  knowing  the  three  powers 
of  Mind,  one  of  which  is  life-action  in  demonstration  as  that 
which  will  compel  us  to  know.     This  will  be  more  fully  explained 


Life  37 

in  future  chapters^  but  suffice  it  for  the  present  to  state  that 
dominion  as  truth's  action  makes  us  to  know. 

In  John  8:12,  we  read,  "Then  spake  Jesus  again  unto  them, 
saying,  I  am  the  light  of  the  world:  he  that  foUoweth  me  shall 
not  walk  in  darkness  but  shall  have  the  light  of  life." 

These  shall  have  the  light  of  understanding  as  given  in  the 
law  of  the  Christ-Mind  as  the  active  consciousness  of  life,  love, 
truth. 

Luke  8:17.  "For  nothing  is  secret  (as  spiritual  perception) 
that  shall  not  be  made  manifest,  neither  anything  hid  (by  false 
mortal  concepts),  that  shall  not  be  known  and  come  abroad." 

Luke  8:18.  "Take  heed  therefore  how  ye  hear  (as  though 
material  sense  testimony  or  through  a  soul  experience  in  con- 
science), for  whosoever  hath  (the  lam  as  a  soul  experience)  to 
him  shall  be  given  (he  will  increase  and  have  abundance)  and 
whosoever  hath  not  (the  law  as  a  soul  experience,  but  is  satisfied 
with  his  sense  experiences)  from  him  shall  be  taken  away,  that 
which  he  seemeth  to  have.  (All  false  concepts  of  material  condi- 
tions shall  vanish  away)/' 

These  statements  by  Jesus  make  it  very  plain  that  the  life  in 
Mind  in  the  image  of  spiritual  action  is  the  one  which  is  to  last. 

John  12:32,  "And  I,  (the  counterpart  of  Mind  as  the  supreme 
law  of  perfection  in  the  expression  of  life,  love,  truth)  if  I  be 
lifted  up  from  the  earth,  (that  is  the  perfect  concept  is  separated 
from  the  imperfect)  will  draw  all  men  unto  me  (because  T  am 
constructive  good  as  life,  love,  truth,  and  free  from  mortality).** 

John  17:3,  "And  this  is  life  eternal,  that  they  might  know 
thee  the  only  true  God,  and  Jesus  Christ  (the  law  of  life-love- 
truth-meaning  of  God),  whom  thou  hast  sent." 

Therefore  to  know,  that  is  to  have  a  soul  experience  of  the  one 
true  God,  as  the  Spirit  of  Mind,  or  the  Mind  of  Good;  and  also 
the  counterparts  thereof  as  the  Spirit  of  Christ  in  life-action, 
love-substance,  truth-perfection,  we  must  express  every  perfect 
idea  as  a  state  of  spiritual  consciousness  which  proceedeth  out  of 
the  mouth  of  God,  out  of  Mind. 


38  The  Christ-Law 

This  is  life  eternal  and  is  found  portrayed  in  the  perfect  ideas 
as  states  of  consciousness^  which  are  arranged  in  orderliness  ac- 
cording to  the  Christ-law  in  the  diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem. 

Therefore  the  world-force  of  material  sensation  is  not  life  or 
any  part  of  life  but  its  direct  opposite.  The  false  sense-inter- 
pretation which  is  given  to  gravitation^  electricity^  magnetism 
does  not  and  cannot  understand  these  forces  or  reveal  their  truth. 
Not  until  we  give  these  world  powers  their  spiritual  interpreta- 
tion shall  we  understand  that  the  worldly  life  according  to  sense 
interpretation  is  not  life  but  death. 

The  animal-sense  magnetism  or  the  mortal  interpretation  of 
the  experience  of  birth  and  deaths  which  is  the  beginning  and 
end  of  this  sense  interpretation  of  destruction^  is  not  life^  but  a 
false  concept  of  true  life  as  immortal  existence.  The  whole  ex- 
perience of  mortality  as  sense  imagination^  from  the  very  first  cry 
to  the  last  groan  is  one  of  material  destruction ;  and  we  all  know 
that  as  soon  as  we  enter  this  concept  of  being  born  materially  that 
therein  we  begin  the  experience  of  death.  Death  is  a  false  con- 
cept, for  it  is  a  sense  interpretation  through  an  imperfect  organ 
which  cannot  possibly  give  the  truth.  This  material  sense  dies 
daily  even  unto  the  climax  of  a  final  end  as  nothingness,  the  ob- 
livion of  the  falsity  in  the  life  of  flesh  which  profits  nothingness. 

The  animal-sense  man,  a  beast  most  terrible  from  the  beginning 
hitherto,  as  given  in  Isa.  18,  is  the  one  of  death  which  alone  dies 
with  all  other  beasts,  for  the  whole  intent  of  this  animal-sense 
magnetism,  the  beast  of  evil  or  devil  working  within  as  the  mortal 
consciousness,  is  a  cursed  intent  to  kill  and  destroy  continually  in 
opposition  to  good.  It  would  exalt  itself  above  the  good,  and  sub- 
stituting itself  in  our  place  pose  as  God's  child,  and  borrow  of 
our  real  life-action  to  destroy  us  that  it  might  make  evil  seem 
real. 

We  have  but  to  look  abroad  upon  the  earth  and  witness  the 
bestial  or  animal  nature  exhibited  by  the  human  sense-mind, 
guided  by  this  false  sense-interpretation  called  animal  magne- 
tism, to  realize  the  evil  force  of  this  world  which  is  called  life, 
but  which  is  not  life  but  death  for  it  invariably  expresses  death, 
nothingness. 


Life  39 

The  seeming  action  of  the  animal-sense  magnetism  as  a  false 
concept  of  a  life  which  dies,  and  is  already  dead,  could  not  be 
expressed  within  us  if  we  of  our  own  volition  did  not  unlawfully 
give  it  action,  lend  to  it  our  sacred  trust  of  real  life-action  in 
spirit  that  our  purity  might  be  defiled  therein. 

The  man  made  law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest  is  the  channel 
through  which  we  reach  this  fury  and  destruction,  and  we  must 
take  notice  that  it  all  comes  about  through  sense  judgments,  judg- 
ments according  to  sense  appearances,  which  our  Saviour  said 
were  unlawful  because  they  cannot  ever  prevail,  they  seem  to  win 
for  a  while  but  each  one  is  sure  to  go  down  before  another  one. 

When  we  live  as  an  animal-sense  man  or  mortal,  experiencing 
this  extermination  of  each  other  in  an  effort  to  kill,  rob,  and  de- 
stroy, that  we  may  possess  another's  substance  to  gratify  our 
thirst  and  lust  for  material  possessions ;  then  we  should  stop  and 
be  thoughtful  for  a  moment  until  we  come  out  of  this  terrible 
dream.  For  in  it  we  are  gathering  a  whirlwind  of  fury  and  self- 
destruction  in  the  time  to  come  when  all  shall  be  fulfilled  by  our 
Saviour;  that  is  all  shall  be  filled  full  of  good,  because  the  good 
is  that  which  prevails  immortality. 

Therefore  this  animal-sense-mind  of  the  mortal,  this  hateful 
evil  spirit  within  mortals  as  the  one  evil  or  evil  one,  which  works 
through  suggestion  because  of  material  appearance,  therein  lead- 
ing us  astray  into  deeds  of  sorrow,  pain,  misery  and  death  con- 
cepts, cannot  be  any  part  of  life  or  life-action  in  the  spirit,  for  it 
is  an  imagination  as  a  dream  only. 

Life  is  immortal  good,  it  is  immortal  presence  in  the  spiritual 
concept. 

In  John  3 :5,  Jesus  said,  **Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  thee  except 
a  man  be  born  of  water  and  of  the  spirit,  he  cannot  enter  into  the 
kingdom  of  God."  Verse  6,  "That  which  is  born  of  the  flesh  is 
flesh;  and  that  which  is  born  of  the  Spirit  is  spirit.'* 

Herein  Jesus  speaks  of  that  which  is  born  of  the  fleshly  sense- 
interpretation  as  a  false  sense  imagination,  and  he  says  that  this 
concept  is  of  itself  nothingness,  that  is  about  nothingness  for 
there  is  no  life  in  it.  But  that  the  spiritual  concept  about  lawful 
being  which  accords  with  the  Christ-law  is  born  of  the  Spirit  of 


40  The  Christ-Law 

perfection,  and  that  this  lawful  spiritual  consciousness  is  the  one 
which  we  are  to  attain  in  order  to  be  quickened  into  life. 

In  John  6:6s,  He  says^  "It  is  the  Spirit  that  quickeneth;  the 
flesh  profiteth  nothing;  the  words  that  I  speak  unto  you^  they  are 
spirit  and  they  are  life.'' 

This  means  that  a  soul  experience  as  a  consciousness  of  con- 
structive good  alone  is  that  which  quickens  us  into  life^  and  is 
true  life-action  for  all  things  of  flesh  conception  are  death. 

In  Matt.  8:22,  "Jesus  said  unto  him,  follow  me:  and  let  the 
dead  bury  their  dead.'*  That  is  let  mortals  bury  their  false  inter- 
pretations. 

We  must  follow  the  law  of  life  in  spiritual  concepts  and  en- 
deavor to  express  every  word  in  the  Christ-law  as  a  state  of 
spiritual  consciousness ;  these  are  represented  in  the  Life  realm  of 
the  Star  as  Intelligence,  Being,  Wisdom,  and  the  ideas  which  pro- 
ceed from  them. 

Rom.  8 :6,  "For  to  be  carnally  minded  is  death,  but  to  be  spir- 
itually minded  is  life  and  peace.*'  This  tells  us  plainly  that  to 
follow  material  sensations  in  their  attractions  and  distractions  is 
death  and  will  lead  into  oblivion;  but  that  to  abide  within  the 
secret  place  of  knowing  the  Christ-law  of  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection,  will  lead  into  an  immortal  existence. 

I  John  3:14,  "We  know  that  we  have  passed  from  death  unto 
life,  because  we  love  the  brethren,  he  that  lovetli  not  his  brotlier 
abideth  in  death."  This  means  that  we  must  give  as  an  interpre- 
tation to  all  things  even  to  men,  the  life-love-truth-meaning  and 
know  no  other. 

One  thing  we  must  do,  we  must  give  the  spiritual  interpretation 
to  all  things  and  have  it  alone  within  consciousness,  that  we  may 
live. 


Life 


41 


The  Comparison  of  Life  Ideas  and  Death  Imaginations 


Obedience 
'  Opposition 


iLiife      j   Dominion 
Impotence 


Death 


Being 

Nothingness 


'  Loyalty 
Treason 


Loveliness 
Meanness 

Infallibility 
Deception 

Control 
Surrender 

Power 
Helplessness 


Reality 
Falsity 

Infinity 
Finiteness 

Presence 
Absence 


(  Faith 
]  Fidelity 
(  Allegiance 


Service  j 

Subversion  1 


Ministration 

Diligence 

Adoration 


( Gratitude 
]  Charity 
( Patience 

(  Stability 
•<  Certainty 
(  Constancy 

(  Success 

•j  Achievement 

'  Mastery 

(  Authority 
]  Ability 
(  Finality 

(  Spirituality 
\  Actuality 
(  Vitality 

Universality 
Absoluteness 
Eternity 

Perpetuity 

Immutability 

Existence 


Doubt 

Enmity 

Antagonism 

Enticement 

Indolence 

Contempt 

Despite 

Malignity 

Petulance 

Transition 

Chance 

Suspension 

Failure 
Defeat 
Servitude 

Pretense 

Futility 

Opinion 

Mortality 

Fable 

Spiritless 

Limitation 
Restriction 
Momentariness 

Cessation 

ChangeablenesB 

Expiration 


42  The  Christ-Law 

LIFE,  THE  Action   of   Mind,  versus   DEATH^  as   a   Mortal 

Concept. 

Beginning  with  the  fact  of  our  own  conscience  as  the  seat  of 
life-action,  whose  presence  and  identity  and  individuality  we  can- 
not deny ;  also  that  our  own  conscience  as  a  state  of  realization  or 
mental-action_,  which  is  always  a  soul  experience  of  perfect  truth, 
must  be  our  life-action  in  its  perfect  being.  For  intuitively  we 
know  that  we  are,  that  is  have  being,  because  of  a  higher  and 
mightier  power  than  any  which  we  possess,  also  that  we  are  in 
some  way  connected  with  this  wonderful  spiritual  power. 

If  universal  being  did  not  have  its  being  independent  of  mortal 
imaginations  it  would  become  involved  in  these  falsities,  and  a 
perfect  expression  of  the  Christ-law  would  be  impossible;  hence 
we  as  expressors  of  the  perfect  law  are  not  and  cannot  be  the 
law. 

Let  us  consider  presence  as  manifest  being,  and  know  this 
presence  to  be  spiritual  law  expressing  all  perfect  being;  for  by 
law  we  mean  the  fact  of  immutable  infallible  truth.  This  pres- 
ence of  one  perfect  right  or  power  of  law,  must  be  perfected 
states  of  spiritual  being,  which  are  unassailable  and  indestructa- 
ble.  Their  presence  is  the  all-presence  of  Being,  and  constitutes 
the  substance  of  all  Being,  in  fact,  is  not  presence  composed  of 
law  which  is  the  power  of  right  in  every  perfect  idea  as  a  state 
of  spiritual  perfection  known  as  God,  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 

When  we  gain  the  concept  of  presence  as  infinite  Mind  com- 
posed of  the  infinite  laws  of  one  right,  and  expressed  in  right 
ideas  which  are  set  forth  in  an  orderly  principle  of  being,  then 
we  gain  a  true  concept  of  real  presence.  We  are  then  delivered 
from  our  false  mortal-sense-concept  of  space  filled  with  its  death 
appearance  of  imperfect  matter  as  presence. 

Our  true  consciousness  or  spiritual  concept  of  presence  is  a 
soul's  realization  of  this  ever-present,  unassailable,  and  inde- 
structible law.  It  is  a  law  of  absolute  perfection  and  excludes  any 
law  of  wrong  from  having  any  being  at  all ;  accordingly  it  is  an 
unthinkable  thing  to  conceive  of  this  ever-presence  as  a  law  of 


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both  right  and  wrong,  for  one  or  the  other  must  prevail;  and  one 
has  prevailed  and  constitutes  the  presence  of  infinite  goodness 
and  love  as  all  being. 

We  know  that  presence  as  active  being  or  life  cannot  be  absence 
as  death,  and  also  that  presence  is  never  absent,  dead.  There- 
fore if  presence  is  the  living  law  of  right  expressed  in  all  right 
ideas  as  states  of  spiritual  being,  then  there  can  be  no  imperfect 
or  wrong  ideas  which  have  being  or  presence,  and  claim  to  be  en- 
tities with  power  as  a  law. 

When  we  have  established  this  concept  of  the  allness  of  one 
law  of  right  as  constructive  good  and  accepted  it,  we  are  lifted 
up  out  of  sense  confusion;  for  we  have  found  one  standard  of 
sure  certainty,  which  is  the  prevailing  of  spiritual  law  as  the  truth 
of  constructive  good. 

Good  as  love  is  the  substance  of  the  law  of  right,  and  the  law 
of  right  is  the  power  of  substantial  good;  both  together  are  the 
perfection  of  real  being  in  truth. 

This  powerful  righteous  law  of  perfect  good,  is  God;  its  pres- 
ence in  his  presence;  its  right  is  his  will  or  law;  its  power  is  his 
truth  expressed  as  the  everpresent  now,  even  as  all  eternity 
which  cannot  be  destroyed. 

We  as  active  spiritual  entities  are  children  of  God,  expressors 
of  the  one  law  of  good  and  right  which  are  the  only  states  of 
consciousness  which  can  be  expressed;  and  when  we  realize  this 
fact  and  abide  therein  we  come  to  know  God,  we  become  healthy 
because  clean  in  mind  and  heart. 

It  is  inconceivable  that  this  perfect  law  should  be  chaotic  in 
nature  and  intent  of  presence;  and  it  is  only  when  we  go  down 
into  the  pit  of  sense  interpretation  as  mortal  imaginations  of  im- 
perfection, thereby  forgetting  the  law  that  we  become  afraid  and 
suffer  from  our  misplaced  thoughts.  But  as  soon  as  we  recover 
our  equilibrium  and  return  to  the  law  we  become  right  once  more 
and  live  in  peace. 

If  life  is  immortal  and  eternal  then  it  does  not  die,  that  is,  go 
into  oblivion;  neither  is  it  ever  anything  but  living  action.  As 
far  as  we  and  our  concepts,  also  expressions  of  life  are  concerned 
when  we  once  obtain  the  possession  of  eternal  life  in  consciousness 


44  The  Christ-Law 

of  the  perfect  law^  thereby  knowing  just  what  life  is^  and  by  liv- 
ing it  become  perfectly  like  its  immortality^  then  do  we  realize 
the  ever-living  life-action  in  Mind. 

Life  is  an  ever-present  infinite  presence  as  a  law  of  spiritual 
power.  It  is  grasped  and  known  to  us  as  a  present  state  of  right 
being  which  cannot  be  abolished;  for  to  abolish  presence  as  a 
perfect  law  of  right  is  unthinkable^  and  cannot  enter  into  the 
mind  of  the  children  of  God^  but  is  found  in  the  imaginations  of 
mortals. 

Therefore  death  as  mortality,  the  opposite  of  life  or  spiritual- 
ity, is  all  that  can  die;  death  as  mortal  concepts  never  did  live 
or  have  any  life,  because  they  are  imaginations  of  the  mortal- 
sense-mind,  impressions  of  material  conditions  which  are  no  part 
of  infinite  Mind. 

Jesus  said,  "Let  the  dead  bury  their  dead."  Let  mortals  bury 
their  mortality.  **But  follow  thou  me,"  follow  his  law  in  expres- 
sions of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection  only. 

Life  and  death  cannot  both  have  entity,  being,  that  is  both 
abide  within  one  supreme  law  of  perfection;  because  both 
cannot  prevail  and  be  supreme. 

Is  not  death  as  a  false  mortal-sense  concept,  a  wrong  interpre- 
tation of  that  which  happens  in  the  perfect  progress  of  life-action  ? 
Is  not  the  imperfect  concept  laid  aside,  that  is,  the  bodily  appear- 
ance of  flesh  as  a  wrong  view  of  man  given  up  ?  Sense  interpre- 
tation overcome  by  the  divine  progress  of  life-action  that  we  may 
be  free  from  its  fury  and  confusion.^ 

Having  been  born  into  this  death  concept  it  matters  little  how 
we  get  over  it,  so  long  as  we  overcome  it  and  gain  the  spiritual 
concept  of  life-action  in  Mind,  the  flesh  does  not  live  and  never 
did,  for  both  dead  flesh  and  its  opposing  live  Mind  cannot  be 
one  in  substance. 

Death  then  as  the  laying  down  of  mortality  is  a  false  concept, 
is  a  mortal  imagination  about  which  we  know  nothing.  We  need 
not  strive  to  bring  it  into  somethingness  for  it  will  be  a  useless 
effort,  it  is  no  part  of  God's  law  of  perfect  being,  and  all  that  we 
have  a  right  to  express  is  this  law  of  perfect  being. 


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When  we  interpret  the  Bible,  from  the  standpoint  of  the  Star, 
then  we  understand  the  allness  of  the  presence  and  power  of 
Mind  as  life-action. 

In  John  1  'A  we  read  where  life  or  light  is  the  understanding 
of  men  as  the  spiritual  conscience  in  action;  and  in  verse  5,  the 
presence  of  the  Christ-law,  as  the  substance  of  this  conscience, 
shines  in  all  the  radiance  and  light  of  good  revealing  perfect 
intelligence.  The  darkness  of  mortal  imagination  does  not  sense 
it  and  cannot  comprehend  it;  but  the  children  of  Spirit  can 
and  do. 

John  S:S6y  "He  that  believeth  on  the  Son  hath  everlasting  life: 
and  he  that  believeth  not  the  Son  shall  not  see  life." 

To  know  and  express  the  law  of  the  Christ-life-love-truth- 
meaning  of  things  is  to  see  and  perceive  their  life-action-sub- 
stance-perfection. But  to  abide  in  the  sense  confusion  of  two 
laws,  having  the  blind  faith  or  fear  of  mortals  in  life  and  death; 
absolutely  prohibits  an  ability  to  know  anything  to  be  true  for 
a  certainty. 

John  5:25,  **Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you  the  hour  cometh, 
and  now  is,  when  the  dead  shall  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son  of 
God;  and  they  that  hear  shall  live." 

The  dead  are  those  among  us  who  abide  in  the  confusion  of 
mortality,  experiencing  the  fury  of  two  laws  of  good  and  evil; 
no  matter  in  what  sphere  they  are,  either  here  or  in  the  here- 
after, either  out  of  the  range  of  these  mortal  senses,  or  in  them, 
they  can  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son  of  God,  sense  may  be  dead, 
but  conscience  cannot  be  killed;  that  conscience  which  hears  this 
law  of  the  Christ  will  live  in  it. 

John  17:3,  "And  this  is  life  eternal;  that  they  might  know 
thee,  the  only  true  God,  and  Jesus  Christ  whom  thou  hast  sent." 

To  know  Mind  and  the  Christ-meaning  of  Mind,  is  to  express 
his  perfect  law  of  good  and  loveliness,  for  God  and  his  Christ 
are  Love. 

The  Life  Table. 

The  following  table  is  that  which  belongs  to  the  realm  of 
life,  and  is  to  be  committed  to  memory,  as  the  others  have  been. 


46  The  Christ-Law 

The  truth-perfection  of  Life  equals  Intelligence. 

The  life-action  of  Life  equals  Being. 

The  love-substance  of  Life  equals  Wisdom. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Life;  in  the  second  revelation  of  Mind  are  Intel- 
ligence^ Beings  Wisdom.     These  ideas  refer  to  Life. 

Under  these  heads  of  the  law  are  arranged  those  ideas  which 
express  action  as  their  individuality  to  demonstrate  the  law  of 
life. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  error  thoughts  are  not  represented 
herein^  for  we  are  supposed  to  have  gotten  rid  of  them  before 
turning  to  this  page.  We  cannot  know  and  understand  for  a 
certainty  the  spiritual  meaning  of  the  ideas  given  in  this  table 
until  we  are  free  from  belief  in  their  evil  opponents. 

Having  turned  from  the  concept  of  error  or  evil  then  let  us 
enter  the  realm  of  life  and  note  some  of  its  reality  and  true 
being. 

Life  is  the  will  of  good  in  action.  It  is  the  beginning  of  all 
consciousness^  and  has  its  incentive  in  the  attractive  power  of 
love  as  good.  The  intent  of  the  will  of  good  is  to  manifest 
good  or  love^  for  they  are  one  and  inseparable;  one  upholds  the 
other,  each  the  cause  and  effect  of  the  other,  and  there  is  no 
need  of  anything  outside;  in  fact,  there  is  no  outside,  for  they 
are  all. 

Life  in  its  action  produces  good  or  love,  and  love  as  substan- 
tial good  is  ever  an  attracting  power  to  set  life  in  action. 

Life  in  its  living  gives  love  being,  and  combined  with  love  as 
good  in  action,  we  are  sure  to  arrive  at  the  concept  of  perfection 
or  truth;  so  it  is  that  life  combined  with  love  equals  truth;  or 
truth  is  but  love  in  action. 

Life-action,  as  the  will  of  good,  is  the  motive  power  of  the 
universe,  and  is  that  which  perfects  love  through  truth,  for  life 
is  the  cause  of  being  in  all  three,  binding  them  into  one.  Con- 
sidered from  the  standpoint  of  being,  or  that  power  which  is 
responsible  for  existence;  we  find  that  in  the  same  way  that 
life  combined  with  love  equals  truth,  that  is    (active  substance 


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equals  perfection)  ;  so  love  combined  with  truth  equals  life^  that 
is  (substantial  perfection  or  substance  perfected  equals  action). 
Again  truth  combined  with  life  equals  love;  that  is  (perfected 
action  equals  substance).  Life  therefore  is  fully  expressed  in 
substance  perfected ;  or  by  love  made  true. 

God  and  his  law,  as  the  will  of  good,  cannot  be  separated, 
for  they  are  one  substance,  and  cannot  be  more  or  less  than 
perfection  to  express  a  perfect  law  of  life,  love,  truth. 

We  as  sons  of  God,  spiritual  mentalities  with  the  power  to 
repeat  his  perfect  being,  must  be  spiritual  and  not  material;  ac- 
cordingly we  have  a  perfect  right  to  this  will  of  good,  and  are 
commanded  to  walk  in  it  and  find  our  perfection  in  the  image 
and  likeness  of  Spirit.  This  will  of  good,  called  life  or  mind- 
action,  is  ours  in  all  of  its  strength  and  might,  to  be  used  to 
express  every  good  idea  as  a  state  of  spiritual  being,  and  for 
this  alone.  It  must  be  our  first  attainment  and  spiritual  pos- 
session, for  without  it  we  are  not  master  of  ourselves,  and  cannot 
prevail  against  sense  suggestion,  but  with  it  we  are  master  and 
can  prevail. 

This  will  of  good,  when  once  obtained  in  conscience,  will  master 
every  state  of  being  and  reveal  its  perfection.  It  is  incited 
through  a  clear  knowledge  of  the  law  of  life,  love,  truth  associ- 
ation as  action,  substance  and  perfection.  The  attraction  of  love 
as  good  is  its  power  and  motive  center,  and  we  must  practice  it 
in  a  clear  consciousness  of  what  we  are  doing  and  why  we  are 
doing  it,  that  we  may  see  clearly  its  presence  and  power  for 
good,  for  in  this  are  we  strengthened  and  made  to  live,  that  is, 
quickened  into  being. 


CHAPTER  III. 

LOVE 

The  Substance   of   Mind. 

Love  equals  the  substance  of  Mind  as  "I  Am/* 

Our  substantial  conscience  is  a  reflected  image  of  constructive 
good. 

A  realization  in  heart  of  constructive  good  is  our  spiritual 
sense  of  true  love;  for  it  certainly  is  lovely  and  lovable^  forming 
the  basis  and  foundation  of  all  loveliness  of  character. 

Love  is  that  substantial  state  of  spiritual  consciousness  which 
is  active  life  in  perfect  operation.  It  is  the  result  of  life's  action 
in  unison^  and  in  harmony  with  the  supreme  law  of  constructive 
good. 

Love  is  that  irresistable  attraction  which  constructive  good  has 
for  all  men^  the  perfect  leading  and  guiding  power  of  the  divine 
Mind  as  the  supreme  law  of  perfection.  We  all  work  at  our 
many  individual  vocations,  that  we  may  experience  each  night 
the  reward  of  good  therefrom.  Many  people,  however,  being  de- 
ceived as  to  what  constitutes  good  do  not  receive  it,  because  they 
have  followed  the  testimony  of  mortal  sense,  which  reverses  the 
definition  of  good  from  God  to  self.  Through  selfishness  or 
self-will  they  have  been  led  to  believe  that  anything  which  pleases 
mortality  is  good;  be  it  theft,  drunkenness,  sensuality,  falsehood 
or  any  vice  whatsoever,  so  long  as  it  pleases  mortals,  it  is  good, 
that  is,  lovely. 

Not  until  these  persons  learn  of  the  true  law  of  constructive 
good,  and  gain  a  working  knowledge  of  its  perfect  power,  to 
prevail  against  all  imperfect  and  erroneous  thoughts  as  selfish 
intentions,  will  they  be  made  free  from  accepting  destructive  evil 
in  place  of  constructive  good  or  love. 


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The  power  of  Mind  in  love  is  its  irresistable  attraction  as  the 
drawing  power  of  good^  for  which  we  are  all  laboring  and  striv- 
ing, and  when  we  seek  first,  last,  and  all  the  time,  to  manifest 
good  from  the  standpoint  of  one  supreme  law  of  perfection,  evil 
intention  will  vanish  into  nothingness  and  the  light  of  true  love 
will  appear. 

When  the  perfect  good  is  manifested  by  the  use  of  this  law, 
and  been  once  experienced,  will  men  search  diligently  for  it 
because  of  the  health,  peace,  and  joy  found  therein. 

Love  is  that  soul  experience  of  good  which  is  in  the  secret 
place  of  knowing;  it  is  the  peace  of  mind  and  rejoicing  with 
another,  because  good  has  been  manifested  instead  of  some  evil 
terror.  Love  is  the  substance  of  our  own  rightful  selfhood,  that 
consciousness  which  is  the  foundation  of  right  thoughts, -desires 
and  intentions;  those  things  which  always  please  the  Father 
because  within  his  law.  Love  is  a  perpetual  quietness  of  heart, 
the  peace,  joy,  and  repose  in  consciousness  of  good;  it  is  the 
known  power  of  right,  which  prevails  against  the  sting  of  offense, 
and  always  deprives  offense  of  its  ability  to  provoke.  This  comes 
to  every  one  who  knows  the  law  of  Christ's  teaching  and  mean- 
ing of  life,  love,  truth. 

All  real  and  true  thoughts,  as  states  of  spiritual  consciousness, 
have  the  one  standard  of  constructive  good  or  love  as  their  base 
of  being. 

In  1st  Cor.  3:16  we  read,  "Know  ye  not  that  ye  are  the 
temple  of  God,  and  that  the  spirit  of  God  dwelleth  in  you?'* 
(The  spirit  of  constructive  good  as  love.) 

Verse  17.  *'If  any  man  defile  the  temple  of  God,  him  will 
God  destroy,  for  the  temple  of  God  is  holy,  which  temple  ye  are." 
{Ye  as  a  spiritual  mentality,  active  in  the  perfection  of  con- 
structive good.) 

The  attractive  and  guiding  power  of  love  abides  naturally 
within  our  conscience,  for  it  is  our  rightful  conscience — a  very 
sacred  place  made  by  our  Father  for  his  abode.  If  we  know 
not  the  one  perfect  law  established  therein,  we  are  at  the  mercy 
of  the  evil  sense,  and  cannot  help  but  defile  this  sacred  place 


50  The  Christ-Law 

of  the  law's  abode;  for  we  do  not  know  how  to  resist  the  testi- 
mony which  says^  "Anything  that  pleases  me  is  good.'* 

Herein  we  are  led  astray  into  error^  and  not  into  love's  domain 
of  holiness^  that  we  may  thoroughly  know  this  temple  of  con- 
science as  the  abode  of  good^  and  worship  God  therein.  To 
defile  this  sacred  place  of  God's  abode  with  mortal  self-will^  as 
imperfect  sense-concepts  of  destruction^  is  our  sin  in  opposition 
to  God^  and  our  reward  is  desolation. 

In  1  J.ohn  4:17  we  read^  "Beloved^  let  us  love  one  another; 
for  love  is  of  God  (good),  and  every  one  that  loveth  is  born  of 
God^  and  knoweth  God  (good),  **He  that  loveth  not  knoweth 
not  God^  for  God  (good)  is  love."  2  John.  6.  *'And  this  is  love, 
that  we  walk  after  his  commandments.  And  this  is  the  com- 
mandnient_,  That,  as  ye  have  heard  from  the  beginning  ye  should 
walk  in  it."  Ye  should  walk  according  to  the  law  of  perfection 
and  become  perfect  therein. 

Surely,  good  as  love  in  its  infinite  expressions,  as  exhibited  in 
the  Star  of  Bethlehem,  is  the  one  and  only  law  of  the  Christ- 
meaning  of  life^  love,  truth.  It  is  that  in  which  we  can  walk 
and  became  perfect,  because  it  is  the  portrayal  of  truth  alone. 

This  Christ-meaning  of  life,  love,  truth,  is  the  substance  of 
our  understanding,  and  there  is  no  perfect  understanding,  apart 
from  this  one,  of  a  realized  consciousness  of  constructive  good 
in  heart.  It  exists  within  our  hearts  as  a  soul  experience  of  the 
living  Christ  of  love  in  presence,  who  watches  over  us  and  guides 
us  aright. 

What   is   Love? 

Love  is  not  an  idea  of  reward,  neither  a  state  of  being  which 
is  bought  or  sold.  It  is  not  a  thought  of  good  in  exchange,  but 
the  doing  of  God's  will  to  please  God,  because  we  love  good. 

In  Matt.  5:46  we  read,  "For  if  ye  love  them  which  love  you, 
what  reward  have  ye,  do  not  even  the  publicans  the  same.^" 

We  must  rise  higher  than  mortality  or  mortal  standards  to 
reach  a  spiritual  concept  of  love,  for  Christ's  love  is  not  con- 
taminated with  the  lust  of  mortals.  Mortals  do  not  get  love  of 
mortals,  but  from  the  one  law  of  good  as  Love.  The  reason  that 
we  do  not  get  love  from  mortals  is  because  we  do  not  trust  them; 


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and  because  of  their  selfishness  they  do  not  give  us  a  final 
testimony  of  their  love^  that  we  might  trust  them.  They  do  not 
as  a  body  of  people  start  that  spark  of  light  within  our  hearts 
and  fan  it  into  a  blaze  with  continued  unselfishness^  and  persist 
therein  until  we  cease  to  fear;  for  having  learned  that  mortals 
cannot  be  trusted  we  do  not  easily  overcome  this  experience. 

Mortals  cannot  be  trusted^  because  they  have  not  the  love  of 
God  in  their  hearts.  They  do  not  know  the  attractive  power  of 
good^  which  alone  can  be  trusted.  Sometimes  we  turn  away  from 
our  mistrust  of  mortals  unto  nature^  and  behold  there  a  beauti- 
ful landscape^  or  maybe  a  wonderful  field  of  flowers,  and  find 
relief  from  our  suspicion  of  deceitful  men,  in  the  consciousness 
of  peace  within  our  own  hearts  as  a  sure  reflection  of  the  law. 
But  to  find  the  real  love  of  the  Christ  we  must  close  eyes  and 
ears  to  all  appearances  of  matter,  and  go  into  the  secret  place 
of  the  most  High  God,  becoming  absent  to  all  things  of  matter, 
and  when  fully  in  touch  with  Spirit  learn  of  the  things  which 
can  be  trusted  at  all  times,  and  then  will  we  find  love. 

Every  love  idea  is  already  inherent  within  our  heart's  con- 
science, and  is  an  absolute  part  of  our  perfect  being;  but  be- 
cause of  sense  testimony  we  do  not  realize  this  fact,  that  is,  that 
out  of  the  living  abundance  of  this  good  which  is  established 
within  us  do  we  constantly  take  for  an  interpretation  of  love, 
expressed  in  beauty,  peace,  loveliness,  symmetry,  etc.  If  these 
perfect  states  of  conscience  were  not  a  part  of  our  real  selfhood 
we  could  not  use  them  to  give  meaning  to  things. 

These  individual  living-entities  as  God's  ideas  are  our  states 
of  being,  always  ready  to  reveal  the  good  to  our  hearts  which 
comes  in  the  perfect  form  of  love.  Love  is  the  substance  of  these 
ideas,  the  substantial  body  of  their  perfect  being,  in  the  expres- 
sion of  which  we  find  our  loveliness  as  love's  reflection. 

There  is  a  good  deal  to  be  said  about  love,  when  it  is  considered 
as  constructive  good.  The  possession  of  good  is  our  eternal 
work,  and  it  is  therefore  very  essential  that  we  have  a  good  idea 
of  that  which  we  are  in  search.  First  of  all,  we  must  realize 
that  true  love  is  not  given  to  mortal  sense  to  be  defiled  in  all 


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manner  of  ways  through  imaginations^  for  real  love  cannot  be 
defiled  or  lost;  this  is  because  of  its  power  over  evil  to  destroy  it. 

Love  is  the  substantial  fact  within  all  good,  that  good  which 
is  immortal  and  infallibly  right  only.  It  is  given  to  those 
souls  who  are  ready  and  willing  to  repent,  and  lay  down  mor- 
tality, in  order  to  be  able  to  take  up  spirituality — those  people 
who  are  ready  to  turn  from  sense  imaginations  of  evil  conditions 
and  study  the  law  faithfully  and  honestly.  To  them  will  be 
given  an  inner  perception  of  love's  perfect  being  in  likeness 
of  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 

It  is  love  which  lightens  the  soul  and  fills  the  whole  body  with 
the  refreshing  joy  of  gladness  and  thanksgiving;  it  makes  active 
the  life  within  us;  it  perfects  the  good  within  us,  and  we  are 
staid,  tranquil,  strong,  and  all  because  we  know  Christ's  love. 

Without  this  Christ-love  in  our  hearts  we  are  as  dead  people, 
knowing  sensations  of  death  in  material  appearances  only,  things 
which  we  can  not  and  do  not  trust,  for  they  are  not  real  and  true. 

When  we  eliminate  our  concept  of  mortals  and  see  the  child 
of  God  in  their  place,  and  know  that  this  child  is  an  active 
spiritual  mentality  in  perfect  expression  of  the  law,  and  that 
they  and  we  are  all  one  in  the  law  of  spiritual  righteousness, 
then  can  w«  love  this  child  and  abide  with  it  in  perfect  love; 
and  this  is  our  command  that  we  love  the  child  of  God  even  as 
we  love  ourself,  for  all  are  in  God  one  conscience. 


Love 


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The  Comparison  of  Love  Ideas  and  Hate  Imaginations 


r 


Judgment 


( Rationality 
•s  Choice 


Compromise         (Reason 


Love 
Hate 


Righteousness     I   Honesty 
Error  }   Hypocrisy 


Justice 
Imposition 


Wisdom 
Idiocy 


Holiness 
Wickedness 


(  Integrity 
<  Morality 
(  Uprightness 


Futility 

Undiscernment 

Enigma 

Duplicity 
Sacrilege 
Fraud 


:  Fairness  Partiality 

!  Equity  Artifice 

(justification         Imputation 


Demonstration    )  p^Qof 
Neglect 


Sufficiency 
Mystery 
( Manifestation      Supposition 


Sagacity 
Foolishness 


Knowledge 
Imagination 


Consecration 
Perversity 


Sanctity 
Blasphemy 


Purity 
Adulteration 


i  Attainment 
A  Perspicuity 
(  Sageness 


Superstition 

Ambiguity 

Silliness 


Information  Illusion 

Erudition  Illiteracy 

Comprehension  Void 

Dedication  Aversion 

Veneration  Dishonor 

Devoutness  Disregard 


Communion 

Grace 

Sacredness 


Scorn 

Corruption 

Profanity 


Cleanness  Filthiness 

Immaculateness  Sin 
Virtue  Vice 


54  The  Christ-Law 

LOVE^  THE  Substance  of  Mind,  versus  HATE,  as  a  Mortal 

Concept. 

When  we  abide  within  the  testimony  of  the  soul-known  things, 
we  learn  of  love  as  the  substance  of  good^  that  substantial  fact 
of  perfect  right  which  is  an  uncompromising  and  perfect  law 
of  immortal  being.  But  when  we  get  careless  and  listen  to  the 
testimony  of  the  deceiving  sense^  which  suggests  that  we  must 
worry  about  some  material  condition  which  conflicts  with  our 
desires,  then  we  are  offended  at  the  impotence  and  confusion  of 
things.  This  offense  is  hate.  It  is  the  confusion  of  imperfect 
mortal  thought-action,  and  is  ever  an  offense  as  the  sting  of 
mortal  impotence. 

It  is  a  dangerous  state  of  mind,  for  it  robs  us  of  all  reason, 
and  blinds  us  to  every  right  thought.  This  aggressively  active 
thing  of  offense  or  hate  has  no  power  or  active  expression  of  its 
own,  neither  life  nor  being.  When  it  is  expressed  we  may  know 
at  once  that  we  have  lent  to  it  some  of  our  own  life-action,  our 
god- given  gift  of  thought-action,  which  was  to  be  used  upon 
right  thoughts  of  love.  We  must  not  be  led  by  sense  suggestion 
into  the  act  of  destroying  ourselves  through  listening  to  evil 
counsel. 

Whenever  we  lend  to  this  thing  of  suggestion  our  blessed  life- 
action  that  it  may  defile  it,  we  are  at  once  in  what  is  called 
fear;  because  hate  is  exceedingly  offensive  and  fearful  to  every- 
one. Surely,  it  does  not  testify  of  love  and  peace,  and  cannot 
manifest  good  in  any  form,  therefore  it  is  no  part  of  the  Christ- 
law. 

When  we  perceive  that  the  whole  intent,  nature  and  purpose 
of  hate,  as  an  expression  of  the  beast,  or  mortal-sense-mind,  is 
one  of  destruction  and  intent  to  kill,  because  it  imagines  that 
that  which  is  killed,  cannot  be  longer  sensed,  then  we  will  recog- 
nize it  as  unworthy  of  our  attention. 

These  two  interpretations  of  sense  and  soul  must  be  separ- 
ated and  put  widely  apart  in  our  consciousness,  for  one  has  a 


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perfect  standard  of  good^  and  can  be  understood  with  peace  and 
love  as  a  result^  while  the  other  has  not. 

Hate  is  an  unlawful  state  of  consciousness,  and  is  no  part  of 
any  law.  Its  apparent  being  as  an  entity  is  hidden  within  a 
suggestion  which  comes  to  us  as  a  false  sense  of  material  condi- 
tions. This  suggestion  demands  that  we  take  upon  ourselves  the 
right  to  rule  according  to  our  own  opinion  and  substitute  might 
for  right. 

We  mortals,  struggling  in  the  confusion  of  the  animal-sense- 
mind,  whose  substance  is  that  of  hatefulness,  because  of  imagina- 
tion and  suggestion  of  evil,  must  arise  and  open  our  eyes  to  the 
fact  of  good  within  the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ,  where  all  is 
love  and  peace.  We  must  cease  to  justify  our  own  acts  while 
abiding  in  fear,  and  to  accredit  our  own  imaginations  and  then 
realize  their  impotence  and  rest  in  fear  and  hate,  for  hate  is 
mortal  fear  or  death.  We  must  know  the  ever-living  power  of 
life,  which  alone  justifies  all  things,  through  its  absolute  continu- 
ation, regardless  of  mortal  imaginations  about  it  and  about  the 
changes  of  matter. 

The  seeming  end  of  all  things  as  death  is  an  imagination,  and 
has  no  being  which  can  be  understood ;  it  is  feared  as  an  appear- 
ance by  those  who  do  not  look  farther  and  deeper  into  life's  action, 
for  this  would  reveal  the  nothingness  of  death,  and  the  allness  of 
immortal  life. 

Neither  death  nor  hate  is  real  or  true,  that  is,  have  individuality 
as  something  to  be  feared,  for  they  have  no  power  as  a  law  with 
an  ability  to  work  upon  us  their  will  of  destruction.  The  Christ 
law,  as  all  power,  has  deprived  them  of  any  power  or  ability, 
therefore  we  need  not  be  afraid. 

Hate  is  useless  and  unworthy  of  our  effort  of  mind-action. 
But  the  carnal-sense-mind  of  mortal  imagination  is  ever  striving 
to  justify  itself.  To  establish  its  own  impotence  and  imperfection 
through  a  blinding  sense  of  self-pity  and  injured  innocence.  But 
its  aggressive  suggestions,  and  use  of  subtle  means  in  naming 
evil,  will  not  help  it  to  make  them  real.  Its  pretentions,  assump- 
tions and  subtle  disguises  in  appearance  will  not  avail  it  anything, 
for  it  is  nothing,  and  has  no  being,  neither  power. 


S6  The  Christ-Law 

It  cannot  deceive  the  child  of  God^  who  has  gained  the  true 
concept  of  eternal  life-action^  and  learned  to  live  in  love. 

Hate  is  never  justified^  for  there  is  no  law  within  the  realm 
of  nothingness  to  justify  anything^  but  love  is  always  justified, 
for  it  is  the  law  of  the  ever-prevailing  Christ. 

The  mortal  imagination  that  hate  will  manifest  good,  and  that 
we  have  a  right  to  express  it  towards  those  who  differ  with  us, 
for  the  benefit  of  all  humanity  or  any  other  seeming  reason,  is 
absurd  and  foolish  in  the  extreme  sense  of  the  word.  It  is  the 
product  of  a  darkened  and  blinded  consciousness,  that  which 
cannot  know,  neither  does  it  know  the  meaning  of  the  allness 
of  love  as  Christ. 

He  who  thinks  to  have  time  to  hate  evil,  is  hateful,  and  to  be 
hateful,  that  is  full  of  hate,  is  to  hate  God.  We  cannot  manifest 
this  quality  of  mind  and  know  God,  neither  love,  because  to  hate 
even  evil  is  to  hate,  and  cover  our  sense  of  love.  Therefore  to 
hate  for  any  reason  or  cause  whatsoever  is  unlawful  and  not 
justifiable,  because  it  is  not  within  the  law  of  love,  in  which  we 
have  been  commanded  to  walk. 

To  express  hate  or  opposition  is  to  be  blinded  and  hindered 
from  gaining  a  clear  concept  of  the  allness  of  love  as  a  law  of 
immortal  life-action,  which  is  to  be  our  second  birth  here  in  this 
experience  of  the  flesh;  and  which  is  to  deliver  us  from  a  concept 
of  evil  as  something. 

Anyone  who  practices  hate  deceives  themselves,  but  not  others, 
for  we  are  just  what  we  build  ourselves  to  be,  either  expressions 
of  loveliness  and  good,  or  expressions  of  evil  and  hatefulness; 
and  it  is  not  possible  to  be  both.  For  this  reason  it  is  well  to 
search  our  own  conscience  to  find  out  just  how  we  appear  to 
others,  and  better  yet  to  see  that  which  is  in  our  own  hearts, 
that  we  may  know  ourselves  as  we  are. 

When  we  become  awake  to  this  habit  of  obeying  the  sugges- 
tion to  be  hateful,  just  because  we  can  and  feel  like  it,  if  for  no 
other  reason,  we  will  be  aware  that  we  are  living  in  mortal  sense 
consciousness  and  not  in  the  Christ  consciousness;  and  it  will 
be  well  for  us  to  stand  firm  against  this  suggestion  to  hate  that 
we  be  not  blinded  and  destroyed  therein. 


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Anyone  who  is  inclined  to  be  hateful  must  stop  and  realize 
that  if  they  will  deny  this  evil  impression,  any  of  their  life-action, 
that  it  will  become  helpless,  and  not  able  to  express  itself  in 
offense,  for  no  matter  how  offensive  its  appearance  we  cannot 
lawfully  lend  to  it  our  life-action,  that  it  may  defile  us.  If  we 
heed  the  many  fine  threads  which  hate  spins  within  the  mortal 
consciousness,  such  as  worry,  indifference,  carelessness,  self-ap- 
plause, inaction,  obligation,  etc.,  we  shall  suffer;  and  not  until 
we  overcome  these  shall  we  be  able  to  understand  love*s  action 
and  live  in  harmony  within  the  Christ-law.  There  is  but  one 
way  to  escape  hatefulness,  and  it  is  to  practice  living  the  ideas 
of  love,  each  one  of  which  will  become  in  conscience  a  sure  bar- 
rier against  its  opponent  of  hate. 

The  Love  Table. 

The  following  table  is  that  which  belongs  to  the  realm  of 
love,  and  is  to  be  committed  to  memory,  as  the  others  have  been. 

The  life-action  of  Love  equals  Obedience. 
The  love-substance  of  Love  equals   Holiness. 
The  truth-perfection  of  Love  equals   Harmony. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Love,  in  the  second  revelation  of  Mind,  are  Obe- 
dience, Holiness,  Harmony.     These  ideas  refer  to  Love. 

Under  these  heads  of  the  law  are  arranged  those  ideas  which 
express  substance  as  their  individuality  to  demonstrate  the  law 
of  Love. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  error  thoughts  are  not  considered 
on  this  last  page,  for  we  are  supposed  to  have  gotten  rid  of  them 
before  making  an  attempt  to  know  the  good  alone,  that  we  might 
abide  in  Love. 

Life  as  the  will  of  good,  in  its  perfect  being,  is  given  an  incen- 
tive to  action  through  love's  attraction.  And  in  this  chapter  we 
are  to  consider  love's  attraction  as  the  attraction  of  God,  or 
good,  which  represents  the  actual  possession  of  conscious  good- 
ness. 


58  The  Christ-Law 

But  good  to  mortals  stands  for  that  which  they  esteem  worthy 
and  valuable — those  things  which  are  most  desirable  to  mortality 
in  each  individual  consciousness^  be  they  whatsoever  they  may, 
either  good  or  evil. 

We  cannot  abide  in  mortality,  for  there  is  no  true  standard  in 
a  multitude  of  opinions,  neither  in  a  concept  of  good  and  evil. 

We  are  therefore  obliged  to  seek  truth^  or  a  true  standard  within 
the  realm  of  spiritual  being,  according  to  the  Christ-law  of  life- 
action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection.  Even  here  there  is  one 
obstacle  to  us,  and  it  is  our  mortality,  for  we  are  able  to  under- 
stand spiritual  things  only  in  so  far  as  we  are  spiritualized,  and 
only  in  so  far  as  we  know  love,  is  love  an  attraction  unto  us. 

The  will  of  good  as  an  attraction  of  love  is  our  first  attain- 
ment in  spiritual  progress,  after  which  comes  a  realization  of  the 
substance  of  good  which  we  have  possessed;  this  must  be  recog- 
nized and  separated  from  a  confused  mass  of  mortal  suggestions 
before  we  can  grasp  it  clearly,  and  nail  it  down,  so  to  speak, 
where  it  will  not  get  lost. 

There  are  three  concepts,  from  which  we  figure  every  other 
concept  as  a  state  of  realization — the  first  one  is  life  as  action; 
the  second  one  is  this  life  as  substance;  the  third  one  is  life  in  its 
perfection. 

Life  in  its  substance  is  the  one  which  comes  into  this  chapter 
and  must  hold  the  thought  of  the  reader  first  and  last,  that  it 
may  be  established  as  an  entity.  To  make  it  more  clear,  let  us 
take  patience  as  a  living  entity  and  consider  it  in  its  phase  of 
substance. 

Patience  requires  the  will  of  good  to  establish  it  in  being 
within  our  conscience,  and  without  this  will  of  good  there  is  no 
patience  established.  We  must  discover  the  love-substance  within 
patience,  before  we  care  to  give  to  it  this  will  of  good  perma- 
nently as  an  allegiance,  for  after  this  allegiance  is  once  given 
there  is  no  taking  it  back. 

To  discover  the  good  in  being  patient,  we  must,  of  course, 
practice  patience  carefully  and  thoughtfully,  and  if  we  do  we 
are  certain  to  perceive  the  good  it  manifests,  which  good  in 
turn  will  have  an  irresistible  attraction  for  us  and  will  establish 


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our  will  of  good;  we  will  eschew  impatience  in  order  to  escape 
the  fury  which  it  manifests^  and  give  our  perfect  allegiance  to 
patience  in  order  to  experience  the  peace,  love  and  joy  of  the 
Christ  consciousness  therein  expressed. 

When  we  have  placed  our  active  will  of  good,  in  conjunction 
with  the  power  of  good,  which  is  manifest  in  patience,  as  its 
reward  of  love,  then  have  we  revealed  the  attractiveness  of  good 
and  realized  it  as  love. 

This  love,  as  the  product  of  truth  and  life,  is  the  substantial 
good  which  we  must  find  within  our  own  conscience;  it  means 
perfection  as  the  Christ-law  in  action;  this  is  the  only  substan- 
tial good  which  we  may  absolutely  trust  and  love. 

Therefore,  the  substance  of  all  being  is  represented  by  its 
truth  and  life,  for  love  is  the  product  of  truth  and  life,  as  true- 
life  in  Mind;  love  is  the  living-truth  of  being;  the  real  sub- 
stance of  being  as  perfect-action:  or  action  in  perfection.  Now, 
if  we  were  not  dead  in  the  mortal  consciousness,  blinded  and 
covered  with  evil  thinking,  we  would  be  able  to  grasp  this  fact 
of  life,  love,  truth  association  and  come  into  the  power  of  Spirit; 
and  therein  gain  our  healing  ability,  which  the  Christ  so  faith- 
fully promised  those  who  should  be  able  to  believe  in  his  perfect 
law,  and  persistently  practice  it. 

Slow  as  our  progress  may  be  at  first,  in  turning  from  this  way 
of  mortal  thought  in  good  and  evil  expressions,  there  is  nothing 
else  to  do  but  to  persist  in  it  until  we  accomplish  it,  for  we  must 
have  our  immortal  life  established,  and  that  for  a  certainty  because 
we  know  and  can  demonstrate  it. 

Each  idea,  as  a  state  of  conscious  being  within  the  Christ-law, 
must  be  worked  out  and  mastered  perfectly,  so  that  we  can  give 
to  it  our  will  of  good  or  life-action  as  an  allegiance,  and  be  able 
to  prevail  against  all  evil  opponents. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

TRUTH 

The  Perfection  of  Mind. 

Truth  equals  the  perfection  of  Mind  as  "I  Can." 

Our  perfect  conscience  is  a  reflection  of  Spirit's  perfection. 

Truth,  as  the  completed  and  perfected  state  of  consciousness, 
reveals  constructive  good  as  our  final  undertanding  and  know- 
ing. It  is  to  make  us  free  from  sense  suggestion,  even  as  Jesus 
said  in  John  8:31,  32,  "Ye  shall  know  the  truth  (the  supreme 
law  of  perfection) ,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free."  That 
is,  the  power  of  Spirit  testifying  to  our  spirit  shall  be  final  of 
constructive  good,  and  because  of  knowing  good  we  shall  not  be 
able  to  know  evil  also,  as  that  which  has  being. 

1  John  3:9,  "Whosoever  is  born  of  God  doth  not  commit  sin; 
for  his  seed  remaineth  in  him,  and  he  cannot  sin,  because  he  is 
born  of  God." 

Few  among  us  stop  to  realize  the  presence  of  truth  within 
our  own  conscience  as  a  convincing  and  satisfying  power,  because 
of  its  final  testimony  of  good.  This  is  because  it  often  opposes 
our  self-interests,  which  we  are  not  willing  to  give  up,  that  we 
might  perceive  the  good  which  is  in  truth. 

This  power  of  final  testimony  in  truth  is  our  third  and  last 
stage  of  knowing,  and  is  the  highest  state  of  our  understanding 
within  the  law  of  jDcrfection;  it  is  the  finishing  touch  of  Spirit 
to  its  temple  of  abode. 

Truth,  as  a  supreme  law  or  principle  of  all  being,  is  the  power 
of  Mind  or  dominion  which  produces  our  perfect  faith  of  know- 
ing, because  of  its  absolute  certainty.  Now,  the  declaration  of 
this  certain  knowing  as  a  soul  experience,  because  of  the  power 
of  Mind  as  an  uncompromising  and  ever-prevailing  law,  will 
drive  out  of  consciousness  all  errors  of  every  kind;  and  is  bound 
to  harmonize  every  discordant  condition  which  is  opposed  to  the 
law  of  truth  or  perfection. 


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Knowing  this  fact^  and  being  instructed  in  the  law,  will  surely 
overcome  our  willing  or  unwilling  attachment  to  all  illusive  sense 
illusions,  and  deliver  us  from  its  torment  as  the  fury  of  imperfect 
concepts. 

Why  then  should  we  defile  our  own  pure  selfhood  in  the  image 
of  Mind  by  following  after  the  deceiving  sense  testimony,  that 
is,  after  any  of  the  treacherous  worldly  things  to  possess  them? 
Are  they  not  the  things  of  outer  darkness,  those  unclean  and 
unlawful  things  of  sense-suggestion  which  are  not  found  within 
the  temple  of  God? 

In  these  three  chapters  of  life,  love,  truth;  is  found  our  sure 
foundation  of  eternal  existence,  and  consists  in  knowing  the  three 
powers  of  Mind,  with  their  proper  use,  that  we  may  work  out 
our  salvation. 

First,  as  life-action,  that  active  volition  or  will  to  live  in  good, 
is  to  do  the  will  of  the  Father  in  constructive  works,  that  we  may 
manifest  a  constructive  consciousness  thereby. 

James  2:17,  "Even  so  faith,  if  it  hath  not  works,  is  dead,  being 
alone."  26,  "For  as  the  body,  without  the  spirit,  is  dead,  so 
faith  without  works  is  dead  also.''  This  same  law  is  applicable 
to  all  manner  of  ideas  in  Mind,  for  each  is  a  state  of  conscious- 
ness which  must  be  manifest  in  good  works  in  order  to  give  it 
life  or  being. 

Second,  we  must  know  that  the  substance  of  that  active  con- 
sciousness is  a  realized  presence  of  love,  and  that  its  power  of 
Mind  is  an  irresistible  attraction  and  guiding  power,  as  an  influ- 
ence of  good  to  lead  all  men  into  righteousness. 

Eph.  3:19,  "And  to  know  the  love  of  Christ,  which  passeth 
(all  worldly)  knowledge,  that  ye  might  be  filled  with  all  the 
fullness  of  God  (good). 

Third,  we  must  know  the  perfected  concept  of  truth,  whicli 
is  to  know  the  life-love-truth-meaning  as  the  full  law.  That  is. 
we  must  know  the  Christ  interpretation  only  of  every  idea  in  per- 
fect Mind.  We  must  understand  its  prevailing  might  as  a  final 
and  satisfactory  power  of  good,  to  establish  a  law  of  irrevocable 
and  unquenchable  judgment  among  people. 


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Isa.  10:17j,  "And  the  light  of  Israel  shall  be  for  a  fire^  and 
his  Holy  One  for  a  flame,  and  it  shall  burn  and  devour  his  thorns 
and  his  briars  in  one  day." 

Truth,  as  the  one  all-inclusive  law  of  perfect  being,  must 
contain  every  perfect  idea  entity,  which  is  an  individual  and  in- 
tegral part  of  Mind ;  and  as  a  unit  of  truth  each  idea  must  express 
perfection  as  completion,  to  represent  some  particular  phase  of 
Mind's  being.  This  phase  or  meaning  is  given  in  the  Christ-law 
of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection,  and  by  nothing 
else. 

These  constitute  all  perfect  being,  and  is  our  sure  foundation 
in  spiritual  progress;  it  is  the  ultimate  attainment  of  all  true 
knowledge  as  knowing  constructive  good  in  every  phase  of  God's 
law  of  love. 

Truth  is  the  perfection  of  constructive  being,  one  thing  of 
perfection,  which  is  unassailable  and  indestructible. 

Truth,  as  the  sum  total  of  anything,  is  all  that  there  is  about 
it,  and  this  testifies  of  one  complete  and  perfect  being  only. 

Truth  must  be  perfectly  and  exactly  like  itself,  neither  more 
than  true  nor  less  than  truth,  for  perfection  is  the  highest  concept. 

Truth  to  be  true  must  of  its  own  self-dominion  prevail  against 
every  opponent  and  maintain  the  law,  by  this  fact  may  we  know 
truth. 

Truth  as  principle  is  a  law  of  one  right,  which  is  forever  the 
one  same  state  of  perfect  being. 

In  John  1 :1  we  read,  "In  the  beginning  was  the  Word,  and 
the  Word  was  with  God,  and  the  Word  was  God.*' 

The  principle  of  truth  as  every  perfect  idea  entity,  which 
is  a  state  of  spiritual  consciousness  with  the  one  Christ-meaning 
of  life,  love,  truth,  is  the  Word;  also  that  which  was  with  God. 
It  is  God  because  the  Christ  and  God  are  one;  and  the  power 
of  Spirit  giving  the  life-love-truth-meaning  and  being  to  the 
word,  must  be  God. 

John  17:17,  Jesus  said,  "Sanctify  them  through  thy  truth,  thy 
word  is  truth."  Then  truth,  as  a  law  of  perfection,  must  be  the 
Word. 


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John  9''S9,  "For  judgment  (the  prevailing  of  one  right)  I  am 
come  into  this  worlds  that  they  which  see  not,  might  see;  and 
they  which  see  might  be  made  blind."  I  am  come  that  all  people 
who  do  not  understand  the  one  law  of  life-love-truth-meaning  of 
things  as  all  and  good,  might  understand,  and  that  those  who 
think  they  understand  sense  suggestion  of  material  conditions 
might  realize  that  they  do  not,  because  they  cannot  be  thought, 
known  or  understood. 

Christ,  as  the  light  of  the  world,  as  the  supreme  law  of  per- 
fection, stirs  up  a  fury  of  error  in  mortal  man,  because  of  its 
uncompromising  way,  and  demand  that  we  follow  one  truth, 
which  is  perfect.  This  flame  of  fire,  as  the  law  of  absolute 
truth,  burns  up  our  errors  and  purifies  our  thoughts,  when  we 
become  willing  to  have  it,  but  those  who  think  to  compromise 
with  truth  will  not  get  their  healing.  Moses  did  not  go  into 
Egypt  to  compromise  with  Pharoah,  but  to  prevail  and  deliver 
the  children  of  Israel.  Truth  comes  into  our  consciousness  in 
the  same  way,  to  prevail. 

No  thoughtful  person  will  deny  the  existence  of  truth,  but  as 
to  just  what  truth  is,  and  to  just  what  it  is  applicable,  is  a  ques- 
tion about  which  we  may  differ.  If  we  do,  then  one  of  us  must 
be  wrong,  for  truth  is  ever  one  state  of  perfect  being.  Truth  is 
the  perfect  word  of  God,  the  perfect  state  of  Mind's  beings  and 
is  expressed  to  us  in  an  infinite  law  or  principle  of  ideas,  which 
is  a  law  of  perfection  as  absolute  constructive  good.  Truth 
cannot  be  two  things,  as  truth  and  its  opposite  evil,  that  is, 
like  itself  in  perfection  and  unlike  itself  in  imperfection  also. 
For  things  which  are  not  equal  to  each  other  cannot  both  be 
equal  to  one  perfect  truth;  therefore,  constructive  good  and  de- 
structive evil,  because  they  oppose  each  other,  cannot  both  be 
equal  to  perfection  in  one  truth. 

We  realize  that  good  represents  perfect  being,  while  evil  rep- 
resents not  an  entity  of  something,  but  the  absence  of  perfect 
good,  or  death,  as  a  lack  of  being  or  nothingness.  Again  we 
know  that  there  is  no  imperfect  truth,  for  truth  is  alone  true 
in  perfection.  From  this  it  is  easily  seen  that  truth  as  perfec- 
tion is  no  part  of  imperfection,  and  hence  is  not  applicable  to 


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things  of  imperfection,  such  as  the  destructive  appearances  of 
material  conditions. 

In  John  7:24^  Jesus  said^  "Judge  not  according  to  the  appear- 
ances^ but  judge  righteous  judgment." 

That  is^  judge  according  to  the  perfect  law  of  one  righteous- 
ness, and  not  according  to  the  testimony  of  the  deceiving  senses, 
and  deceiving  because  imperfect,  for  no  imperfection  can  mani- 
fest perfection. 

This  law  of  righteousness  as  truth-perfection,  which  is  given 
to  us  through  the  testimony  of  the  Spirit  of  truth,  reveals  this 
fact  to  our  conscience ;  that  no  amount  of  declaring  that  2  times*  2 
is  5,  or  that  it  is  not  5,  will  ever  teach  us  that  it  is  4.  But  that 
the  declaring  of  the  truth  alone,  that  it  is  4,  will  give  us  the 
desired  consciousness. 

In  Matt.  7:16,  Jesus  said,  "Ye  shall  know  them  by  their 
fruits;  do  men  gather  grapes  of  thorns  or  figs  of  thistles.'*" 

Ye  shall  know  them  by  the  way  in  which  they  have  been  declar- 
ing with  active  mind,  either  the  things  of  truth  or  of  error. 
For,  as  we  declare  states  of  conscience  in  mind,  are  we  either 
good  or  evil,  according  to  the  intent  of  our  hearts,  because  the 
things  which  we  declare  those  do  we  manifest  outwardly. 

We  cannot  gather  good  things  as  good  states  of  consciousness 
from  the  thorns  of  an  evilly-trained  conscience ;  and  never  do  any 
evil  thoughts  manifest  any  good  results. 

In  Matt.  12:37,  Jesus  further  states  this  fact  in  a  more  forc- 
ible way,  for  he  said,  "By  thy  words  thou  shalt  be  justified, 
and  by  thy  words  shalt  thou  be  condemned." 

Even  as  we  declare  the  perfect  words  of  the  Christ-law  of 
righteousness,  and  therein  learn  to  know  it,  are  we  justified  by 
the  fruits  thereof.  As  for  the  other  imperfect  thoughts,  which 
so  persistently  assail  us,  their  profit  is  condemnation  and  noth- 
ingness. 

But  we  have  this  consolation,  that  for  every  perfect  thouglit 
known  and  established  in  consciousness,  there  is  an  evil  one, 
and  may  be  many  of  them  put  out  of  consciousness  forever;  be- 
cause when  we  know  truth  and  once  give  our  allegiance  to  it. 


Truth  65 

then  do  we  have  dominion  over  its  evil  opponent  and  it  cannot 
prevail  against. us. 

Truth  is  one  of  the  three  powers  of  Mind  which  serve  as  our 
dominion^  when  we  have  gained  their  consciousness,  as  nothing 
can  prevail  against  the  power  of  truth  to  make  it  anything  other 
than  its  one  perfect  being,  and  as  we  build  our  thoughts  in  perfect 
harmony  with  this  state  of  being  will  we  prevail  through  its 
power. 

To  know  perfection  is  a  mighty  and  convincing  state  of 
knowledge,  and  it  cannot  be  denied,  neither  overcome,  for  it  is 
altogether  face  evident. 

When  we  have  completed  anything  it  represents  perfection, 
and  when  it  works,  as  in  a  machine,  the  act  of  working  is  repre- 
sentative of  life-action,  according  to  law,  and  cannot  be  denied, 
for  when  we  have  perfection  in  action,  surely  we  have  some 
substance  as  representative  of  love  or  good. 

Herein  we  have  the  three  states  of  being,  which  compel  us  to 
know,  for  they  cannot  be  denied;  they  are  present  to  vouch  for 
themselves,  and  proceed  to  do  so  in  such  a  convincing  way  that 
there  is  no  argument. 

These  states  of  material  conditions  are  known  to  us  as  states 
of  conscious  realization  of  mind,  that  is,  we  realize  the  law  as 
being  real  and  true,  because  of  its  three  proofs  of  life-action, 
truth-perfection  and  love-substance.  This  law  can  be  applied  to 
states  of  spiritual  being  just  as  readily  as  to  conditions  of  mat- 
ter, and  even  more  so. 

Take  for  instance  the  state  of  patience,  which  is  a  realized 
conscience,  and  when  expressed  will  demand  action,  the  acting 
of  which  will  prove  its  good,  and  therein  reveal  the  love;  and 
the  action  in  love  will  produce  the  perfection  of  good,  wherein  we 
have  the  three  powers,  which  compel  us  to  know,  because  we 
cannot  deny  them. 


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The  Christ-Law 


The  Comparison  of  Truth  Ideas  and  Falsehood  Imaginations 


r 


Intelligence 
Ignorance 


Truth 

False- 
hood 


Principle 
Chaos 


Understanding 


Intuition 
Receptivity 


Stupidity  -j^ecepuviiy 

^       -^  ( Experience 


Obtuseness 

Apathy 

Latency 

Consciousness     \  fj^.Z^Jl'^}''^'         {^^^^jsion 
Matter  1  Interpretation     Inaction 

D     i:__4..- —  Perplexity 


Creation 
Destruction 


Peace 

Offense 


Harmony       ^  Unity 
Discord  ^  I^^^is^^n 


Freedom 
Bondage 

Science 
Duality 

Law 
Anarchy 


Order 
Confusion 


(  Realization 

(  Revelation 
■j  Construction 
(  Goodness 

(  Trust 
•<  Quietude 
(  Amity 

i  Oneness 
•<  Union 
(Agreement 

(  Liberty 
]  Rejoicing 
(  Health 


Conceilment 

Separation 

Carnality 

Suspicion 
Agitation 
Animosity 

Divorce 
Schism 
Contradiction 

Obligation 

Sorrow 

Disease 


S  Instruction  Egotism 

Enlightenment  Vacuity 

System  Irregularity 

i  Organization  Shiftlessness 

Standard  Theory 

Government  Lawlessness 


i  Method 
<  Regulation 
Fulfillment 


Carelessness 

Superficiality 

Procrastination 


I 


Truth  67 

TRUTH,  THE  Perfection  of  Mind,  versus  FALSEHOOD,  as 
A  Mortal   Concept. 

At  the  start  of  this  analysis  we  discover  that  truth,  as  soul 
testimony,  and  falsehood,  as  sense  testimony,  are  opposed  to  each 
other  and  therefore  cannot  both  be  real  and  true,  that  is,  equal 
to  one  perfect  truth. 

We  already  know  that  a  falsehood  has  the  substance  of  noth- 
ingness, and  is  devoid  of  either  being  or  meaning;  we  also  know 
that  a  lie  is  not  truth,  and  that  truth  is  all  that  has  being  and 
meaning.  That  is,  that  the  truth  about  it  is  all  that  there  is 
about  it. 

But  we  do  not  know,  because  we  have  not  as  yet  learned,  that 
all  mortal  imagination  is  false  expression,  or  expression  of  false- 
hood, it  is  false  because  opposed  to  truth  as  a  law  of  perfection; 
for  mortal  imagination  of  both  good  and  evil  cannot  conform  in 
any  way  to  one  right  or  truth. 

The  one  way  out  of  this  dilemma  is  to  learn  the  expression  of 
the  right  or  perfect  ideas  only,  which  are  indeed  our  states  of 
spiritual  being,  and  apart  from  which  there  is  no  safety  or 
reality  as  being. 

Our  first  effort  is  to  gain  an  ability  to  discern  mortality  as  all 
falsity ;  because  it  is  the  seat  of  the  testimony  of  right  and  wrong. 
We  must  learn  to  ignore  the  concept  of  wrong,  and  give  our  allegi- 
ance to  the  right  alone.  It  becomes  absolutely  necessary  to  com- 
pare the  right  with  the  wrong,  in  order  to  definitely  separate 
them;  we  must  measure  the  two  together  as  truth  and  falsehood, 
for  the  express  purpose  of  witnessing  the  truth  prevail  over  the 
falsehood,  so  that  we  may  be  convinced  of  the  power  of  truth. 
For  we  are  to  know  once  for  all  time  that  the  good  is  all  power 
and  that  which  we  must  follow. 

Falsity  at  once  loses  its  presence  and  power  when  brought 
into  the  presence  of  truth,  for  this  is  a  law  of  Spirit,  and  cannot 
be  overcome.  Evil  suggestion,  which  is  no  more  than  sugges- 
tion, may  seem  to  prevail  for  a  while,  provided  it  comes  not  near 
truth;  but  all  of  the  evil  things  to  which  we  have  given  power, 
clothed  with  a  symbol,  and  then  honored  with  presence  from  our 


68  The  Christ-Law 

storehouse  of  active  thought,  must  be  reclaimed,  destroyed  out  of 
consciousness,  and  their  falsity,  placed  at  its  proper  value  of 
nothingness,  that  it  may  vanish  away  and  lose  itself. 

There  are  not  two  opposing  realities,  as  a  true  universe  and 
a  wrong  universe,  for  that  which  is  cannot  be  absent,  therefore 
if  truth  is  all,  there  cannot  be  any  falsity;  also  if  the  universe 
is  spiritual  there  cannot  be  a  material  universe.  Hence  one  of 
these  concepts,  as  a  state  of  consciousness,  must  be  purely  an 
imagination.  As  falsity  has  no  real  being  there  can  be  no  such 
thing  as  falsity,  which  has  entity  as  a  law,  with  power  in  its  own 
name.  But  it  is  different  when  we  behold  truth,  for  there  we 
find  a  reality  as  an  entity  with  power  in  its  own  name,  and  it 
can  prove  its  right  to  its  claim,  not  once  in  a  while,  but  always 
without  exception. 

Now,  it  is  the  object  of  this  section  of  the  chapter  to  separate 
the  individual  states  of  truth  from  their  opposing  falsities,  to 
which  we  have  thoughtlessly  given  a  name  or  symbol,  with  a 
meaning  utterly  foreign  to  the  one  Christ  meaning  of  life-action, 
love-substance,  truth-perfection;  for  we  must  withhold  both  the 
name  and  the  meaning  of  evil,  that  we  may  cease  to  give  our 
allegiance  to  things  which  are  not. 

Falsehood,  as  the  lie  of  mortality,  is  the  epitome  of  deception, 
and  is  not  wholly  overcome  while  we  are  in  this  state  of  experience 
of  the  flesh  as  something.  Nevertheless,  we  can  begin  to  make 
our  progress  heavenward,  here  and  now,  and  climb  out  of  this 
realm  of  falsity  into  truth. 

It  may  seem  strange  to  state  that  every  mortal  concept  of 
material  conditions  is  a  lie  or  falsity,  and  false  because  imper- 
fect; it  is  imperfect  because  gained  through  imperfect  senses, 
which  are  limited  wholly  to  the  testimony  of  one  thing  as  matter. 

It  is  not  intended  to  wipe  out  all  existence  by  these  statements, 
but  to  reveal  the  impotence  of  the  material  concepts,  as  compared 
to  the  spiritual  truth  of  being,  and  awaken  the  reader  to  the 
fact  of  false  sense  interpretations  which  lead  us  astray  into 
errors  and  suffering,  when  we  are  entitled  to  the  right  or  spiritual 
interpretation  of  things  which  leads  into  peace  and  health.  But 
to  the  large  majority  of  people  it  is  an  impossible  task  for  them 


Truth  69 

to  give  a  spiritual  interpretation  to  things,  and  it  is  because  they 
do  not  know  how,  nor  of  just  what  a  spiritual  interpretation  con- 
sists, but  when  we  understand  that  a  spiritual  interpretation  is  . 
giving  the  Christ-meaning  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth- 
perfection  to  things,  then  it  is  brought  down  to  a  tangible  point 
which  we  can  grasp  and  know  just  what  we  are  doing. 

When  we  seek  to  find  the  life-love-truth-meaning  in  all  things, 
then  will  we  begin  to  get  right  and  have  a  sure  way  to  overcome 
all  falsity,  thereby  eliminating  those  things  which  beset  us  with 
confusion. 

We  will  discover  that  we  cannot  give  this  meaning  to  anything 
evil  and  false,  and  therein  will  we  be  shown  those  things  which 
were  made  by  Him  who  made  all  things  which  were  made.  Those 
things,  as  states  of  fury  and  confusion,  sickness  and  disease,  etc., 
which  seem  to  have  been  made  with  the  others,  will  vanish  away 
before  the  power  of  truth  known  in  consciousness. 

When  we  try  to  hold  a  dual  concept  in  consciousness,  as  of 
good  and  evil,  truth  and  a  lie,  right  and  wrong;  we  are  sure  to 
abide  in  confusion,  and  there  is  no  help  for  us  as  long  as  we 
continue  in  this  thought,  for  as  long  as  we  recognize  them  both 
we  are  not  able  to  know  either  one  with  certainty.  Therefore,  it 
is  absolutely  essential  for  us  to  give  up  the  false  sense  concepts, 
before  we  can  know  truth  and  prove  it  to  be  true. 

We  must  cease  to  deal  with  falsehood  in  all  ways,  neither  lie 
ourselves,  nor  understand  that  others  lie  to  us;  we  must  not  be 
offended  at  the  suggestion  of  falsehood,  nor  at  its  appearance 
in  material  conditions  even,  but  knowing  truth,  stand  firm  with- 
out offense  demanding  its  presence  and  use,  as  well  as  its  perfect 
manifestation.  We  must  know  truth  ourselves  so  well  and  so 
strong  that  we  do  not  have  to  witness  the  falsity,  but  simply 
demand,  without  argument  or  offense,  that  the  truth  be  expressed. 

The  Truth  Table. 

The  following  table  is  that  which  belongs  to  the  realm  of 
truth,  and  is  to  be  committed  as  the  others  have  been. 


70  The  Christ-Law 

Table  One. 

The  love-substance  of  Truth  equals  Righteousness. 
The  truth-perfection  of  Truth  equals  Principle. 
The  life-action  of  Truth  equals  Dominion. 

Therefore,  the  counterparts  or  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Truth,  in  the  second  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Righteousness,  Principle,  Dominion.  These  ideas  represent 
Truth. 

Under  these  heads  of  the  law  are  arranged  those  ideas  whose 
individuality  is  to  demonstrate  and  express  the  law  of  Truth. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  error  thoughts  are  not  considered 
on  this  last  page,  for  we  are  supposed  to  have  gotten  rid  of  them 
before  coming  into  the  understanding  of  the  truth  herein  ex- 
pressed. 

This  is  the  third  and  last  chapter  of  the  three  on  the  first  reve- 
lation of  Mind,  as  the  Christ  law  of  life,  love,  truth;  and  it  must 
not  be  overlooked  that  the  association  of  these  three  ideas  in  in- 
finite variation  accounts  for  all  real  and  true  language,  as  well 
as  expressed  states  of  spiritual  being.  We  never  get  away  from 
the  life-love-truth  meaning  of  things,  in  the  realm  of  the  Christ- 
law. 

To  be  able  to  understand  and  learn  to  use  these  tables,  as  well 
as  those  which  will  follow  in  succeeding  chapters,  is  our  one 
aim,  for  by  this  ability  alone  are  we  to  gain  our  healing  power 
through  understanding  the  healing  law  of  the  Christ-Mind. 

Truth  as  the  finished  state  of  spiritual  expression  is  the  prod- 
uct of  life-action  and  love-substance;  truth  is  therefore  active 
substance. 

In  the  same  way  that  substantial  action  equals  true  being  does 
active  substance  equal  truth. 

We  can  substitute  any  number  of  ideas  as  differing  phases  of 
Mind  for  these  three  ideas  of  basic  being,  and  in  this  way  grow 
and  expand  in  an  ever-increasing  wealth  of  knowledge  of  good. 

It  is  this  knowledge  of  true  being  according  to  the  Christ-Mind 
in  all  of  its  glory  and  goodness  and  purity  which  is  to  make  us 
free  from  the  falsity  of  material  sense  testimony,  and  its  accom- 


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panying   confusion   of   disease   because   of  transgression   of  the 
Christ-law  of  infinite  good. 

This  is  that  which  the  Saviour  referred  to  in  St.  John  8:31-32, 
and  it  cannot  be  too  firmly  fixed  in  mind  that  we  are  to  abide 
within  the  constant  expression  of  this  law  in  order  that  we  may 
know  it  perfectly  and  gain  skill  and  ability  in  its  honest  use 
and  expression. 

Love  is  the  law  of  the  Christ,  made  active  in  life,  and  perfected 
through  truth;  and  we  may  profit  well  with  these  three  con- 
cepts: That  life  and  love,  action  and  substance,  equals  perfect 
truth.  Again,  love  and  truth,  substance  perfected,  equals  life- 
action.  Again,  truth  and  life,  perfection  in  action,  equals  sub- 
stantial love. 

Truth  as  the  last  state  of  perfect  understanding  is  that  which 
is  to  make  us  know,  and  through  knowing  we  are  to  be  made 
free  from  not  knowing,  or  the  abiding  in  confusion  of  sense  tes- 
timony; therefore  in  order  to  be  free  we  are  to  know,  and  in  the 
following  chapters,  which  are  about  the  nine  heads  of  the  law, 
this  fact  of  knowing  is  further  discussed,  for  each  head  of  the 
law  bears  upon  this  subject  of  law  and  is  intended  to  elucidate 
the  whole  in  parts,  that  we  may  be  able  to  understand. 

If  the  Christ  law  is  absolute,  impersonal  and  good,  as  in  truth, 
then  all  law  must  be  absolute  in  order  to  have  being  in  truth. 

If  truth  alone  can  be  understood  and  is  that  which  alone 
teaches  us  all  that  we  truthfully  know,  then  the  sayings,  doings 
and  testimony  of  mortal  mind  is  false  and  cannot  possibly  teach 
us  anything  but  error. 

If  this  is  so,  then  it  is  high  time  that  we  knew  the  absolute 
Christ-law  in  its  life-love-truth-meaning  to  use  in  working  out 
our  life  problems.  The  mortal  declarations  of  opinions  about 
material  conditions  make  it  impossible  for  us  to  understand  abso- 
lute truth;  for  absolute  truth  alone  is  that  which  can  be  under- 
stood, y 


CHAPTER  V. 

OBEDIENCE 

THE  Life  of  Love. 

A  law  of  direction  for  our  method  of  interpretation. 

Our  Saviour  said  **Out  of  the  abundance  of  the  heart  the 
mouth  speaketh."  Every  one  making  an  interpretation  is  com- 
pelled to  take  it  from  the  abundance  of  knowledge  which  they 
have  stored  up  in  consciousness  from  past  years  of  experience^ 
either  through  mortal  sense  about  material  conditions  or  through 
soul  experiences  with  spiritual  law^  for  as  a  man  thinketh  in  his 
mind  so  is  he  obedient  in  love,  serving  spiritual  law,  or  disobedi- 
ent in  hate,  serving  the  carnal  sense-mind^that  is,  serving  the 
law  of  perfection  or  imperfection.  Therefore  the  understanding 
of  this  saying  of  our  Master  will  help  to  bring  us  together  on  a 
common  ground  of  one  right  through  a  perfect  law  of  true  in- 
terpretation. It  will  thereby  eliminate  that  personal  egotism  so 
often  present  in  those  who  serve  two  standards  of  interpretation 
and  because  of  which  they  think  it  a  strange  thing  that  their 
neighbor  does  not  see  it  right,  that  is,  just  as  they  do. 

It  therefore  becomes  us  all  to  recognize  the  one  perfect  Christ- 
law  which  has  one  spiritual  interpretation  and  understanding  for 
all  things,  in  which  we  are  harmonized  through  obedience  as  the 
life  of  love.    . 

When  there  are  expressed  two  opinions  on  any  one  subject 
they  must  differ  because  there  are  two,  of  which  one  must  be  in 
error,  for  two  differing  opinions  cannot  both  be  equal  to  one 
perfect  truth.  At  this  point  we  ask  by  what  means  do  we  get 
our  information  which  is  to  be  used  for  our  interpretations  and 
which  must  necessarily  become*  our  obedience  or  disobedience? 
We  soon  discover  that  we  have  two  ways  of  receiving  experiences, 
those  of  material  sensations  on  the  brain  and  those  of  the  spiritual 


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soul  in  conscience;  and  neither  one  of  these  can,  nor  does,  under- 
stand the  other,  for  they  are  opposites. 

The  first  one  of  material  sensations  on  the  brain  is  a  testimony 
of  the  everchanging  and  imperfect  conditions  of  matter;  those 
appearances  as  suggestions  of  true  being  which  come  to  us  from 
outer  darkness  as  the  confusion  of  matter.  They  cannot  be 
understood,  because  there  is  no  perfection  in  them  to  understand; 
hence  they  must  all  be  the  work  of  sense  temptation  to  disobedi- 
ence. 

The  reason  of  this  is  because  the  mortal  sense  organ,  as  our 
body,  is  a  receiving  station  for  all  kind  of  sensations  and  is  so 
constructed  that  it  receives  and  records  upon  the  brain  indiscrimi- 
nately the  testimony  of  good  and  evil  alike  and  is  helpless  to 
resist  either  the  one  or  the  other  as  a  sensation.  Herein  disobedi- 
ence ensues  because  of  conflicting  testimony,  that  of  perfection 
and  of  imperfection  also.  Hence  all  testimony  from  outer  dark- 
ness must  come  as  a  suggestion  only  and  not  as  a  convincing 
truth  through  the  soul. 

This  testimony  goes  through  a  process  of  filtering  through 
reason,  which  eliminates  all  impurities,  leaving  us  with  that 
which  conforms  to  absolute  law. 

The  second  way  of  our  receiving  testimony  which  is  to  be  used 
by  us  as  a  means  of  interpretation  is  through  the  word  of  the 
spirit  of  truth,  given  to  our  spirit  in  the  secret  place  of  the  Most 
High.  This  testimony  is  one  of  spiritual  perfection  as  an  infalli- 
ble state  of  perfect  being  in  peace,  love  and  joy,  which  is  to  be 
our  obedience  as  the  life  of  love. 

Our  understanding  from  the  spirit  of  truth  does  not  consider 
a  condition  of  matter,  but  has  to  do  only  with  our  obedient  action 
in  love.  It  is  a  sufficient  guide  to  cover  all  our  needs  here  in  this 
experience  of  the  flesh.  It  takes  the  place  of  the  false  mortal 
concepts  and  rules  with  complete  power,  for  its  testimony  to  us 
is  certain,  satisfying  and  final  in  every  way. 

These  two  witnesses  oppose  each  other  in  their  testimony  of 
destructive  disobedience  and  constructive  obedience;  now,  both 
cannot  be  equal  to  one  state  of  perfect  existence  in  truth,  and  it 
is  easily  seen  that  the  one  which  prevails  is  the  one  with  power 


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to  manifest  something  as  constructive  good.  And  now  comes 
this  question:  How  is  it  possible  for  anyone  who  has  spent  time, 
money  and  energy  in  gathering  together  the  fury  of  sensational- 
ism and  having  taken  into  consciousness  all  manner  of  material 
experiences — as  sense  attractions  and  distractions^  of  the  things 
of  disobedience  which  come  from  the  realm  of  outer  darkness — ^to 
take  therefrom  an  interpretation  which  requires  a  soul  experi- 
ence within  the  secret  place  of  the  Most  High?  This  is  why 
Jesus  said  that  out  of  the  abundance  of  that  store  of  sense  con- 
cepts as  the  things  of  disobedience  or  from  the  spiritual  under- 
standing in  the  soul  of  obedience  are  we  obliged  to  take  for  an 
interpretation. 

Our  Master  went  further  to  explain  this  subject  to  us,. for  he 
said  *' Judge  not  according  to  the  appearances,  but  judge  right- 
eous judgment." 

Judge  not  according  to  the  suggestion  of  appearances  which 
come  to  us  from  the  realm  of  outer  darkness,  as  that  which  leads 
through  sense  to  disobedience;  but  judge  according  to  the  law 
of  right  which  is  given  unto  us  within  the  secret  place  of  the 
Most  High,  that  we  may  abide  in  obedience. 

Again,  Jesus  said  that  we  should  know  the  truth,  and  that  this 
knowledge  of  truth  should  make  us  free  from  these  sense  sug- 
gestions of  imperfection,  provided  that  we  continued  in  his  per- 
fection. 

It  is  easily  seen  that  a  person  who  abides  in  the  concept  of 
good  and  evil,  right  and  wrong,  can  have  no  part  in  the  Christ 
consciousness,  as  the  constructive  good  of  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection. 

This  is  why  we  are  disobedient  people  and  criticise  each  other 
with  hate  and  intolerance.  It  is  because  we  do  not  know  the  one 
perfect  law  of  the  Christ  as  a  soul  experience,  but  are  satisfied 
with  an  appearance  of  this  law  in  which  is  no  power  or  reality; 
and  not  until  we  come  together  in  the  one  law  will  we  be  free  in 
truth.  Then  shall  we  be  free  from  hate  and  opposition  as  the 
sting  of  offense  because  of  two  standards,  as  the  false  sense  stand- 
ard and  the  truth  standard  also.     Our  differences   come  about 


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from  our  differing  interpretations,  which  must  constitute  our 
obedience  or  disobedience. 

Again  our  Master  said  that  we  could  not  serve  two  masters, 
that  is,  abide  by  two  standards  of  interpretation,  those  of  sense 
testimony  and  those  of  soul  testimony,  for  service  to  both  would 
be  treason  to  both  and  service  to  neither. 

His  command  is  that  we  abide  in  righteous  judgment,  as  the 
understanding  of  obedience,  the  life  of  love. 

When  we  see  an  angry  neighbor  whipping  his  son  to  make 
him  obedient  we  know  that  the  son's  obedience  to  an  angry  father 
is  disobedience  to  a  law  of  love;  for  love  cometh  not  from  hate 
as  the  force  exerted  through  material  sense  testimony,  but  from 
spiritual  loveliness.  This  evil  suggestion  of  material  force  was 
the  false  sense  interpretation  supplied  by  the  father  because  he 
did  not  know  that  obedience  was  the  life  of  love.  If  both  he  and 
the  son  had  known  this  fact  they  would  both  have  come  together 
in  one  thought  and  there  would  have  been  no  cause  for  material 
force. 

If  our  neighbor  knows  not  the  law  of  active  love  as  obedience 
from  actual  experience  of  having  gained  the  power  therein,  then 
he  is  at  the  mercy  of  sense  suggestion  and  compelled  to  wallow 
in  his  confusion  until  right  and  love  reveal  to  him  the  light  of 
the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ,  uncontaminated  with  mortal  sense 
opinions,  beliefs^  customs,  social  demands,  etc. 

Obedience  as  the  life  of  love  is  revealed  unto  us  as  a  soul  ex- 
perience within  the  secret  place  of  conscience,  where  actual  and 
absolute  knowledge  of  the  spiritual  kingdom  is  given  to  all  those 
who  enter  therein,  for  obedience  is  the  open  door  into  the  kingdom 
of  heaven  or  harmony. 

Obedience  is  the  constant  living  of  loveliness  which  leads  us 
into  a  true  concept  of  the  nine  heads  of  the  law,  and  without  it 
no  progress  could  be  made  in  the  law's  expression,  for  it  is  every- 
where necessary.  The  power  of  Mind  in  obedience  is  that  of  life- 
action,  and  is  that  which  will  give  the  will  of  good  momentum, 
and  carry  us  through  every  error  or  temptation  that  we  may 
not  fail  to  express  loveliness. 

Obedience  as  the  life  of  love  is  the  first  head  of  the  law  and 


76  The  Christ-Law 

the  name  of  the  first  point  of  the  Star.  Obedience  is  an  open 
door  through  which  all  may  enter  into  spiritual  understanding 
and  gain  the  kingdom  of  heaven^  which  is  the  realm  of  true  and 
perfected  harmony  as  true  love. 

Obedience  the  life  of  love  is  the  first  law  which  we  are  to  learn ; 
this  act  of  life  in  ]\Iind  exercised  upon  the  substance  love  requires 
that  within  our  hearts  must  abide  a  wellspring  of  loveliness^  giv- 
ing forth  thoughts  of  gratitude  and  acts  of  charity  and  patience. 

We  must  first  discover  the  Christ  meaning  of  obedience ;  loyalty 
is  its  truth  or  perfected  state;  service  is  its  action;  and  loveliness 
is  its  foundation  of  constructive  good. 

Loyalty  as  the  finished  state  of  true  allegiance  to  the  one  law 
of  supreme  perfection  expresses  obedience  in  its  truth  concept, 
and  is  a  state  of  realized  spiritual  conscience  into  which  material 
things  do  not  enter,  for  they  cannot  be  considered  in  the  same 
way. 

But  how  can  we  be  really  loyal  to  anything  which  we  do  not 
know  with  certainty,  as,  for  instance,  this  supreme  law  of  per- 
fection.^ If  we  do  not  know  the  law,  then  what  are  we  loyal  to 
when  we  express  this  state  of  being  loyal?  Loyalty  in  its  true 
sense  is  an  absolute  allegiance  and  fidelity  given  forth  because 
of  having  perfect  faith,  as  that  faith  of  knowing.  This  faith  of 
knowing  is  that  which  we  can  surely  trust,  and  comes  from  ex- 
perience with  good  which  is  manifested  by  obedience. 

Obedience  as  the  life  of  love  in  living  loveliness  is  applicable 
to  all  of  God's  creations,  but  if  we  depart  from  them  and  try  to 
give  our  obedience  to  things  mortal  we  are  compelled  to  rest  in 
fear,  because  these  things  of  mortal  origin  cannot  command  our 
trust,  neither  convince  nor  satisfy  us  in  any  way.  The  Christ- 
law  alone  does  this,  and  to  it  alone  we  will  learn  to  give  our  alle- 
giance. 

Our  one  disobedience  is  in  not  possessing  a  loving  heart,  to 
be  indifferent,  and  to  ignore  good  things,  and  not  to  walk  in 
the  law  is  our  disobedience  to  the  Christ-law  of  love.  Disobedi- 
ence to  the  Christ-law  must  not  be  confounded  with  disloyalty  to 
some  mortal  who  demands  that  we  follow  his  dictation  without 
question ;  for  when  mortals  exalt  themselves  above  the  law,  claim- 


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ing  the  right  to  make  other  laws  and  then  demanding  obedience 
to  them^  we  can  but  discover  two  laws  and  abide  in  fear,  for  we 
have  no  faith  in  the  laws  of  impotent  and  imperfect  mortals. 

When  we  begin  to  be  obedient  because  of  our  perfect  faith 
in  loyalty  to  the  law,  then  we  find  the  substance  of  this  loyalty 
present  in  the  form  of  a  desire  and  intent  to  serve  Christ.  Our 
active  life-action  must  be  guided  to  some  purpose  in  loveliness, 
that  we  may  serve  that  to  which  we  have  given  our  loyalty.  To 
serve  the  law  is  to  do  the  will  of  the  law,  which  is  to  express 
every  perfect  idea  in  loveliness,  for  this  is  alone  true  obedience 
and  the  object  of  this  particular  head  of  the  one  law. 

When  we  abide  within  the  concepts  of  peace,  love  and  joy,  then 
are  we  obedient,  regardless  of  the  demands  of  mortals. 

Now,  just  how  are  we  to  learn  to  be  obedient  and  thereby  ful- 
fill the  demands  of  the  Christ-law  ? 

First  let  us  open  our  hearts  to  the  testimony  of  Spirit  to  our 
spirit  and  listen  to  the  voice  of  truth  within  our  own  conscience 
telling  us  of  the  one  law  of  perfection.  We  must  abide  therein 
until  we  can  trust  this  testimony,  because  we  cannot  rightfully 
deny  or  oppose  it.  Herein  shall  we  discover  our  faith  of  knowing 
which  is  our  loyalty,  and  by  accepting  this  law  of  known  certanty 
are  we  led  into  the  consciousness  of  service  as  the  ministration 
of  diligent  adoration,  which  is  a  desire  to  live  in  this  good  and 
sure  place  of  love.  We  shall  then  discover  that  we  are  lovely 
and  lovable  and  also  obedient  to  the  law. 

Our  three  stages  of  life-action  in  the  second  development  of 
Mind  are  as  follows :  Beginning  with  obedience,  we  find  ourselves 
buried  in  mortality  and  living  in  the  crude  physical  state.  As 
we  turn  from  this  mortal  concept  we  make  our  first  effort  to  gain 
spirituality,  and  it  is  ushered  in  through  beginning  to  be  obedi- 
ent. When  we  have  gained  some  degree  of  obedience  we  dis- 
cover that  we  have  another  quality  coming  into  prominence, 
which  is  dominion,  the  second  stage  of  life-action.  It  is  on  a 
higher  plane  of  being  as  the  mental,  and  from  our  concept  and 
use  of  obedience  and  dominion  we  are  prepared  to  understand  the 
third  stage  of  the  life  of  life  or  spiritual  being. 

Now,  just  how  are  we  to  study  the  Star,  that  we  may  learn 


78  The  Christ-Law 

to  abide  in  the  thought  expressions  of  the  law  which  is  given 
therein  and  also  gain  a  spiritual  perception  of  the  Christ's  per- 
fection ? 

By  unveiling  and  realizing  the  truth  about  that  which  we  al- 
ready know  and  through  applying  the  truth  perceived  in  one 
case  to  that  of  another,  that  our  eyes  may  be  opened  and  that, 
seeing,  we  may  see  and  understand. 

We  cannot  deny  the  ever-presence  of  the  infinite  and  supreme 
law  of  the  Christ's  perfection,  which  is  a  spiritual  presence  mani- 
festing every  possible  state  of  perfect  being — within  which  we 
live  and  apart  from  which  we  have  no  life  at  all.  With  this  fact 
firmly  fixed  within  our  conscience,  let  us  consider  some  of  the 
perfect  idea  entities  which  we  already  known  to  be  perfect  states 
of  being  in  Mind,  as,  for  instance  2  times  2  equals  4.  This  is  a 
perfect  fact  of  the  law,  and  because  we  are  children  of  Mind  hav- 
ing an  ability  to  think  and  to  express  this  fact,  then  we  are  cer- 
tainly under  the  tuition  of  the  law  alone,  which  teaches  its  off- 
spring all  that  it  is  to  know  through  a  power  of  spiritual  prevail- 
ing or  convincing  facts  of  action,  substance,  perfection. 

Now,  if  the  truth  of  this  idea  of  2  times  2  equals  4  was  not 
within  the  law  we  could  not  have  known  it,  for  we  could  not  have 
repeated  it  mentally;  therefore  for  the  reason  that  it  is  truth  we 
can  express  it,  and  we  must  take  notice  of  these  facts  of  our 
expression:  First,  its  perfection  only  can  be  expressed;  second, 
that  the  act  of  expression  brings  the  light  of  knowing  into  con- 
sciousness; third,  that  when  once  possessed  it  satisfies  and  is 
sufficient  for  every  demand  made  upon  it. 

All  that  we  can  know  about  it  is  expressed  in  our  soul  reflec- 
tion of  its  exact  and  absolute  image,  which  it  presents  to  us 
through  the  mind;  it  always  uses  the  one  means  of  life-action, 
love-substance,  truth-perfection  to  accomplish  this  fact  of  teach- 
ing us. 

Its  power  of  being  as  a  fact  of  the  law  has  an  inherent  ability 
to  teach  us  and  instruct  us  of  itself,  and  our  knowing  is  dependent 
upon  our  honest  allegiance  to  this  law  of  perfection.  It  is  because 
we  have  already  given  our  absolute  allegiance  unqualifiedly  to 
this  fact  of  Mind  that  nothing  can  turn  us  from  it.     If  we  had 


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not  given  our  perfect  allegiance  to  this  fact  of  2  time  2  equals  4j 
we  could  not  have  known  it^  for  to  know  means  to  find  God,  good, 
and  give  our  allegiance  to  good. 

It  must  be  an  honest  intent  of  the  soul  directed  to  the  things 
of  the  law  for  the  purpose  of  understanding  them,  wherein  we 
will  surely  get  right. 

If  this  is  true  about  one  idea  of  the  law  it  must  be  true  about 
every  idea  of  the  law,  for  there  is  one  law  of  perfection  only. 

Having  gone  over  this  process  of  reasoning  with  an  idea  which 
we  know,  let  us  repeat  it  and  apply  the  same  reasoning  to  an- 
other kind  of  an  idea;  and,  turning  to  the  first  point  of  the  Star, 
we  find  that  loyalty  is  the  truth  of  obedience.  Our  effort  must 
now  be  to  gain  a  clear  consciousness  of  just  what  loyalty  as  a 
state  of  spiritual  being  is.  No  suggestion  as  a  power  from  man 
can  compel  us  to  know,  but  the  power  of  the  ever-present  Spirit 
of  truth,  which  testifies  within  conscience  of  absolute  law,  can. 
When  we  look  into  the  law's  presence  and  behold  therein  the 
manifestation  of  its  loyalty  to  us,  and  that  in  perfect  obedience 
it  rules  all  things  in  the  universe  without  divergence  then  we 
recognize  that  it  is  all  for  our  good,  and  we  come  in  touch  with  our 
one  instructor  as  the  true  law  of  the  Christ-righteousness. 

We  get  our  true  concept  of  just  what  loyalty  is  by  witnessing 
the  law's  manifestation  of  loyalty  to  us,  and  our  loyalty  must  be 
that  of  the  law's  repeated,  for  there  is  none  other.  Now,  when 
once  found  and  perceived  we  cannot  help  giving  our  perfect  al- 
legiance to  the  loyalty  of  the  law,  because  of  its  perfection  and 
goodness;  and  soon  we  find  that  we  are  loyal  to  the  law  and 
its  goodness.  This  allegiance  is  our  knowing  and  is  our  healing 
power  of  spiritual  perception,  therefore  when  we  pray  without 
knowing  just  what  we  are  praying,  that  is,  realize  the  allegiance 
which  we  are  declaring,  no  wonder  that  we  get  such  confusing 
results. 

Once  coming  into  touch  with  the  law  and  perceiving  its  power 
to  prevail,  we  discover  something  that  we  can  absolutely  trust; 
but  we  can  trust  it  only  in  just  so  far  as  we  know  it.  This  trust 
in  its  knowing  is  our  perfected  faith,  that  faith  which  has  the 


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dominion  to  do  all  things^  wherein  nothing  shall  be  impossible 
unto   us. 

It  must  be  realized  that  this  faith  as  allegiance  or  loyalty 
to  the  law  abides  in  conscience^  within  the  secret  place  of  the 
Most  High^  and  that  mortality  is  not  considered  in  any  way 
or  capacity^  for  this  allegiance  must  be  given  absolutely  to  the 
Christ-law  alone  or  not  at  all. 

In  the  following  verses  this  fact  is  made  very  plain  and  without 
excuse  or  compromise^  for  it  means  that  we  must  be  absolutely 
loyal  to  the  Christ  alone  if  we  would  understand  and  gain  the 
faith  which  is  to  carry  the  power  of  dominion  in  its  use. 

John  5 'AS,  "I  am  come  in  my  Father's  name  (in  the  name  of 
the  absolute  and  supreme  law  of  perfection)  and  ye  receive  me 
not:  If  another  shall  come  in  his  own  name^  him  ye  shall  re- 
ceive." 

Is  it  not  even  so.^*  For  do  not  mortals  set  themselves  up  as 
leaders  and  demand  that  we  follow  them  ?  They  blazon  their  own 
names  abroad  and  establish  material  laws  of  coercion  to  rule 
through  fear  and  lay  it  all  before  as  as  the  work  of  the  Christ, 
for  they  would  divide  our  allegiance  to  the  absolute  Christ-law 
with  themselves  that  they  might  receive  some  of  his  glory. 

In  verse  44  this  saying  and  teaching  of  the  law  is  made  more 
plain  and  definite,  for  it  reads,  "How  can  ye  believe,  (have  faith 
in  the  lam  through  understanding)  which  receive  honor  one  of 
another,  (strive  to  obey  coercive  mortal  laws  and  the  absolute 
Christ-law  also),  and  seek  not  the  honor  that  cometh  from  God 
only.?" 

This  is  a  subject  which  we  must  all  think  over  carefully  and 
find  out  just  what  our  consciousness  says  about  it,  for  therein 
will  we  get  the  truth  and  be  made  to  know  just  where  we  stand, 
if  we  oppose  conscience  we  will  know  it  immediately  because 
of  fear,  but  when  we  lay  down  all  allegiance  to  any  other  god 
but  God  we  will  be  at  peace  in  heart. 

It  is  not  that  which  is  declared  unto  us  by  mortals  which 
makes  us  know,  but  the  infallible  testimony  of  the  Spirit  of  truth 
within  our  own  conscience  alone,  for  all  mortals  are  under  the 
law,  not  the  law  under  mortals  and  their  self  will. 


Obedience 


81 


The  Beginning  of  How  to  Know. 

That  which  follows  is  a  comparison  of  the  good  and  evil 
thoughts  for  the  purpose  of  separating  them  one  from  the  other, 
so  that  we  may  realize  the  nothingness  of  the  one  of  evil  and  the 
allness  of  the  one  of  good.  It  is  absolutely  necessary  that  we 
understand  why  these  evil  thoughts  should  be  discarded,  and 
that  their  whole  nature  and  intent  is  one  of  destruction,  not  to 
others,  but  to  us,  to  each  individual  who  indulges  in  their  expres- 
sion. 

We  must  be  made  to  perceive  the  utter  uselessness  and  result 
of  death  which  comes  from  their  use  by  closely  comparing  them 
with  the  good,  for  in  this  way  is  conscience  awakened  through 
the  attractiveness  of  the  good.  No  one  would  knowingly  choose 
a  counterfeit  dollar  bill  in  place  of  a  good  one  when  given  the  op- 
portunity to  compare  them  and  discover  the  difference,  neither 
would  they  choose  the  thoughts  which  work  death  instead  of  life 
upon  us  when  given  the  opportunity  to  understand  one  from  the 
other. 

These  comparisons  in  all  of  the  chapters  are  intended  to  reveal 
a  way  or  method  of  procedure  only,  to  which  all  may  add  other 
reasons  to  suit  themselves  in  an  effort  to  gain  a  clear  concept 
of  the  allness  of  the  good. 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Law  of  Obedience 


Obedience 
Opposition 


Loyalty 
Treason 


Service 
Subversion 


Loveliness 
Meanness 


Faith 

Fidelity 

Allegiance 

Ministration 

Diligence 

Adoration 

( Gratitude 
-  Charity 
( Patience 


Doubt 

Enmity 
Antagonism 

Enticement 

Indolence 

Contempt 

Despite 

Malignity 

Petulance 


82  The  Christ-Law 

OBEDIENCE,  the  Life  of  Love,  versus  OPPOSITION,  as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Opposition  is  certainly  a  mortal  concept  of  death's  presence  in 
destruction.  When  we  express  it  or  even  strive  to  we  do  not 
bring  anything  into  being  for  the  glory  of  good,  but  rather 
blind  ourselves  to  that  which  has  being  in  good.  The  law  of 
love  does  not  oppose  anything,  for  opposition  is  not  within  its 
nature.  Opposition  as  a  mortal  concept  of  self  right  and  as 
something  worthy  of  recognition  is  utterly  apart  from  the  Christ- 
law  of  one  spiritual  right. 

Our  Master  said  "resist  not  evil,'Vthat  is,  with  mortal  force  of 
evil,  but  to  turn  from  it  to  the  law  of  love  in  obedience,  and  that 
it  will  become  nothing  as  soon  as  we  take  from  it  our  active 
thought. 

He  said  again,  "resist  evil,"  meaning  for  us  to  turn  from  it 
unto  obedience,  to  stand  firm  in  the  expression  of  love,  and  it  will 
flee  from  us.  He  suffered  not  the  evil  to  even  speak,  but  mani- 
fested love  and  destroyed  the  error  at  once,  and  it  was  because 
he  knew. 

We  must  not  forget  to  declare  unto  evil  that  there  is  no  life, 
love,  truth  in  it;  for  the  law  of  good  has  already  overcome  evil 
and  love  constitutes  all  being  in  perfection.  The  mortal  imagina- 
tion of  more  than  all  is  self  conceit  and  an  unthinkable  thing; 
therefore  we  must  persistently  abide  within  the  law  and  cease 
to  express  the  evil  concept  of  opposition. 

LOYALTY,  THE  Truth  of  Obedience,  versus  TREASON,  as 
a  False  Concept. 

Treason  is  that  mortal  concept  of  self  right  which  is  no  part 
of  the  perfect  law  of  loveliness,  although  it  claims  to  be  able  to 
stand  in  opposition  to  the  right  and  honor  of  law.  We  must  not 
be  deceived  by  any  such  claim  and  be  made  to  suffer  in  conse- 
quence, but  through  an  acknowledgment  of  loyalty  to  the  law  of 
right  and  loveliness  be  led  into  peace  and  joy. 

We  must  realize  that  God's  law  is  loyal  to  us  in  every  way  and 
cannot  express  treason,  hence  this  concept  of  treason  must  be  a 


►  Obedience  83 

sense  of  suggestion  of  the  lack  of  loyalty  in  us,  and  there  to 
work  death  upon  us. 


SERVICE,  THE  Life  of  Obedience,  versus  SUBVERSION, 
AS   A   Death   Concept. 

Subversion  is  a  false  mortal  concept  claiming  ability  to  lead 
astray  into  unlawful  paths  and  ruin;  for  it  would  turn  us  aside 
from  serving  the  one  perfect  law  of  righteousness  and  mould 
our  conscience  in  the  image  of  evil.  Our  hearths  love  in  service 
to  the  one  law  must  be  firm  and  solid,  not  to  be  led  astray  by 
this  subtle  concept  of  subversion. 

Evil  would  subvert  our  attention  from  service  to  the  law,  that 
it  might  hide  the  good  from  us  and  darken  our  understanding 
in  destruction. 

LOVELINESS,  the  Love  of  Obedience,  versus  MEANNESS, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Meanness  is  utter  blindness  to  the  spiritual  law  of  good,  it  is 
the  foolish  and  dead  mortal  consciousness  running  riot  within 
its  own  realm  of  death,  it  represents  the  ignorant,  helpless  and 
hopeless  mortal  wallowing  in  its  own  darkness. 

This  manifestation  of  the  beast-mind  as  our  mortal  sense  mind 
gives  forth  no  good  to  anything,  neither  does  it  express  any  life- 
action,  for  it  is  utterly  dead  and  void  in  its  effort  at  expression. 

Our  effort  to  choose  between  this  mortal  concept  of  meanness 
and  that  of  the  living  beauty  and  peace  of  loveliness  should  not 
bother  us  much,  for  the  result  of  either  one  is  at  once  made  mani- 
fest. 

FAITH,  THE  Love  of  Loyalty,  versus  DOUBT,  as  a  Hate 

Concept. 

Doubt  is  mortal  confusion  because  of  impotence,  and  is  also 
a  mortal  imagination  that  nothingness  is  something,  that  absence 
is  presence. 


84  The  Christ-Law 

Doubt  is  not  something  which  has  a  meanings  but  is  mortal 
confusion  from  not  understanding,  hence  a  dead  concept  in  noth- 
ingness. Doubt  is  the  result  of  a  superstitious  mortal  conscious- 
ness which  has  listened  to  the  evil  suggestion  of  material  condi- 
tions. 

Faith  comes  from  absolute  knowing  only,  Faith  is  a  state  of 
perfect  being  as  an  entity  with  meaning,  and  must  not  be  con- 
founded with  that  blind,  mortal,  so-called  faith  which  is  but  fear 
and  doubt  because  of  not  knowing  love,  which  alone  will  cause 
fear  to  vanish  away. 

FIDELITY,  THE  Truth  of  Loyalty,  versus  ENMITY,  as  a 
False   Concept. 

Enmity  is  caused  by  mortal  confusion  and  is  a  result  of  in- 
jured selfishness.  When  we  depart  from  the  law  of  love  in  which 
we  receive  the  protection  of  good  we  are  thrown  upon  our  own 
resources  of  imagination,  which  result  in  confusion  and  death 
expressions,  wherein  we  become  afraid  and  this  fear  is  enmity 
in  opposition  to  the  law  of  fidelity. 

Enmity  never  yet  manifested  any  good  and  never  will,  for, 
being  in  opposition  to  good,  as  fidelity  to  the  law,  it  cannot  do  so. 

ALLEGIANCE,  the   Life   of   Loyalty,  versus  ANTAGON- 
ISM, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Antagonism  is  a  wilful  opposition  to  good  and  right,  because 
good  and  right  will  not  compromise  with  selfishness  and  mortal 
will.  There  is  no  excuse  admissible  for  the  desertion  of  the  per- 
fect law,  and  we  are  sure  to  receive  our  punishment  in  darkness 
and  blindness  to  peace  and  good. 

We  are  all  commanded  to  walk  before  the  law  and  to  become 
perfect  therein,  and  when  we  purposely  step  aside  for  the  mortal 
or  man-made  laws,  thinking  that  therein  we  can  gain  more  of  that 
which  pleases  us,  we  receive  of  this  law  its  one  gift  of  fear,  which 
is  called  antagonism. 

Allegiance  to  the  Christ-law  is  our  way  of  escape  from  this 
death  concept  and  its  sure  destruction. 


Obedience  85 

MINISTRATION,  the  Truth  of  Service,  versus  ENTICE- 
MENT, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Enticement  is  the  love  of  mortal  sensation  which  seeks  to 
please  self  instead  of  God  in  the  ministration  of  His  love.  In 
finding  self  or  selfishness  we  find  nothingness  and  abide  in  fear, 
for  every  mortal  imagination  of  evil  is  an  enticement  to  fear. 
This  blinds  every  one  afflicted  with  it  to  the  ministration  of  love, 
which  it  is  our  duty  to  express. 

Enticement  loses  its  power  through  suggestion  when  we  learn 
of  the  Christ-law  because  of  the  attractive  power  of  the  good 
therein.  Ministration  is  the  command  of  the  Saviour,  and  we 
must  not  be  enticed  away  because  of  mortal  sense  indulgences  as 
sensationalism. 

DILIGENCE,  THE   Life   of   Service,   versus  INDOLENCE, 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Indolence  is  such  an  aggressive  error  of  nothingness,  such  an 
evil  suggestion  to  rob  us  of  our  life-action,  that  it  needs  little 
exposure  to  open  our  eyes  to  its  fury  and  destructive  intent. 
It  certainly  is  no  part  of  growth  and  progress  and  cannot  give 
forth  good  because  utterly  inactive  and  dead  in  its  purpose.  It 
is  one  of  those  stupid  mortal  states  of  death  consciousness  which 
is  believed  to  be  a  state  of  being  and  worthy  of  practice  because 
it  is  easy,  but  we  must  awake  from  this  thing  of  death  which 
holds  so  many  of  us  in  its  grasp  of  impotence. 

Diligence  will  soon  reveal  this  error  and  destroy  its  intent. 

ADORATION,   the   Life   of   Service,   versus   CONTEMPT, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Contempt  is  an  exalted  self-consciousness  in  which  there  is  not 
a  shadow  of  the  Christliness  of  the  law.  If  our  neighbor  differs 
with  us  it  is  because  we  do  not  both  know  the  one  Christ-law  of 
love,  for  when  we  exalt  the  law  with  adoration  for  it,  we  are  sure 
to  lose  our  concept  of  contempt,  for  it  will  be  swallowed  up  in 
the  realization  of  love. 


86  The  Christ-Law 

This  imaginary  state  of  being  is  not  being,  but  death  personi- 
fied in  a  hateful  mortal  consciousness ;  this  thing  we  must  eschew 
persistently  that  it  does  not  overcome  us^  for  contempt  is  a  very 
subtle  error. 


GRATITUDE,    the    Life    of    Holiness,    versus    DESPITE, 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Despite  is  akin  to  meanness  and  malice,  and  is  expressed  by  a 
mortal  consciousness  utterly  darkened  to  the  love  which  is  God. 
It  is  so  deeply  buried  in  the  fear  of  hate  that  it  is  hopelessly 
blind  and  dead. 

Its  whole  intent  of  expression  is  that  to  produce  nothingness 
as  inaction,  for  it  would  even  bite  itself  in  an  effort  to  kill  some- 
thing. We  cannot  afford  to  lend  our  sacred  thought-action  unto 
this  error,  but  must  be  busy  giving  forth  gratitude  to  God  for 
having  been  delivered  from  its  darkness,  through  knowing  how 
to  express  the  law  of  love. 

We  must  learn  to  look  despite  straight  in  the  face,  with  an  un- 
flinching heart's  love  and  prevail  against  it  at  all  times. 


CHARITY,  THE  Love  of  Loveliness,  versus  MALIGNITY, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Malignity  is  a  mortal  concept  of  right  to  condemn,  behind 
which  we  find  ourselves  hiding  in  order  to  express  some  of  the 
malignity  within  us.  We  must  arise  from  our  blindness  and 
know  that  the  law  is  infallible  and  able  to  stand  against  us, 
therefore  we  must  exalt  the  law  above  our  own  selfish  desire  to 
condemn  and  express  a  will  of  malice.  We  cannot  harbor  this 
concept  of  death  in  consciousness  and  allow  it  to  gnaw  away  our 
understanding  of  love,  for  charity  is  the  attitude  of  the  law  to- 
ward us,  and  we  must  be  obedient  in  its  expression  as  children 
of  God.  All  condemnation  and  criticism  must  be  swallowed  up  in 
thoughts  of  charity. 


I 


Obedience  87 

PATIENCE^    THE    Truth    of    Loveliness,    versus    PETU- 
LANCE, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Petulance  is  a  subtle  hidden  thread  of  selfishness  which  is 
capable  of  bursting  into  a  flame  of  fire  as  an  evil  intent  of  de- 
struction. Petulance  is  mortal  egotism  and  self-conceit  and  hin- 
ders us  from  seeing  the  way  of  life,  love,  truth  expressed  in  the 
Christ-law. 

Now  death  concepts  in  opposition  to  the  one  of  Obedience  are 
those  which  keep  us  from  getting  a  start  in  the  way  of  right 
thought,  that  we  may  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven  and  learn 
the  law  of  love. 

How  TO  Know  Obedience. 

How  can  I  learn  to  use  and  know  the  power  for  good  which  is 
in  the  head  of  the  law  of  Obedience,  thereby  gaining  an  ability 
to  overcome  every  evil  temptation  which  suggests  disobedience? 

First,  by  knowing  obedience  as  a  soul  expression  of  the  Christ- 
law  of  one  constructive  good,  and  learn  thereby  that  the  special 
office  of  this  head  of  the  law  is  active  loveliness  which  casteth 
out  all  fear. 

Second,  by  understanding  that  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection  are  the  powers  of  mind  which  fulfill,  compel 
and  seal  our  knowing  of  one  constructive  good  as  all  and  final. 

Third,  by  committing  the  following  tables  so  as  to  have  this 
knowledge  present  within  consciousness  whenever  there  is  need 
to  use  its  power  against  an  evil  suggestion. 

And  now  a  word  about  the  tables  of  the  Star.  The  object  of 
them  is  distinctly  to  give  a  complete  Christ-meaning  of  life-love- 
truth  in  association  with  every  thought  as  a  state  of  spiritual 
being;  without  which  there  is  no  complete  thought.  This  is 
necessary  in  order  to  be  able  to  understand  the  one  spiritual 
meaning,  for  it  is  not  possible  to  give  our  perfect  allegiance  to 
anything  and  know  it,  without  this  one  life-love-truth  meaning 
of  the  Christ-perfection. 

This  fact  is  the  strength  of  the  law  as  portrayed  by  the  Star, 
and  the  full  meaning  of  an  idea  is  given  in  the  following  as  an 
illustration : 


88  The  Christ-Law 

The  truth  perfection  of  active  obedience  equals  love's  substan- 
tial loyalty.  Herein  is  the  complete  statement  of  a  complete 
state  of  being  expressed.  It  can  be  perfectly  understood  and 
spiritually  perceived^  accepted  in  conscience^  and  our  allegiance 
given  to  it,  which  is  to  constitute  our  knowing  loyalty  as  a  state 
of  good  and  perfect  being. 

From  this  it  may  be  seen  that  every  true  idea  of  mind  is  an 
association  or  related  effect  of  life-love-truth  meanings,  for 
which  are  substituted  infinite  ideas  in  our  attainment  of  wisdom. 
These  constitute  our  spiritual  being  uncontaminated  with  impo- 
tent and  imperfect  mortality. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem. 

The  Tables  in  the  First  Point  of  the  Star  of  Obedience: 

Table  One. 

The  life-action  of  love-substance  equals  truth's  perfect  Obedi- 
ence. 

Table  Two. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Obedience  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Loyalty. 

The  life-action  of  active  Obedience  equals  life's  active  Service. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Obedience  equals  truth's  perfect 
Loveliness. 

Therefore,  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Obedience,  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Loyalty,  Service,  Loveliness.  These  three  ideas  represent  Obedi- 
ence. 

Table  Three. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Loyalty  equal's  life's  active 
Faith. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Loyalty  equal's  truth's  per- 
fect Fidelity. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Loyalty  equal's  love's  substantial 
Allegiance. 


Obedience  89 

Therefore^  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Loyalty  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Faith^  Fidelity,  Alegiance.     These  three  ideas  represent  Loyalty. 

Table  Four. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Service  equals  love's  substantial 
Ministration. 

The  life-action  of  active  Service  equals  life's  active  Diligence. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Service  equal's  truth's  perfect 
Adoration. 

Therefore^  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Service,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Ministration,  Diligence,  Adoration.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Service. 

Table  Five. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Loveliness  equal's  truth's  per- 
fect Gratitude. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Loveliness  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Charity. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Loveliness  equal's  life's 
active  Patience. 

Therefore,  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Loveliness,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind, 
are  Gratitude,  Charity,  Patience.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Loveliness. 

The  preceding  tables  reveal  the  power  of  the  Christ-law 
which  compels  us  to  know  the  good  alone  and  be  healed  therein 
from  imperfect  sense  interpretations  of  Obedience.  The  knowing 
of  these  as  a  soul  experience  will  deliver  us  from  every  evil  con- 
cept which  attacks  us  in  this  point  of  the  Star.  For  evil  cannot  pro- 
duce at  our  demand  the  substance  of  the  law  of  life,  love,  truth, 
but  is  forced  to  vanish  away. 

A  Way  to  Study  the  Tables. 

After  we  have  come  out  from  among  the  evil  concepts  with  a 
heart  full  of  the  allness  of  the  good,  and  stand  ready  to  walk  in 
the  presence  of  Christ  and  his  perfect  law,  then  we  can  take 


90  The  Christ-Law 

up  the  tables  on  the  preceding  pages  and  begin  to  perceive  the 
spiritual  meaning  of  life-action^  love-substance^  truth-perfection. 
It  is  expressed  in  each  and  every  state  of  spiritual  being  repre- 
sented by  the  ideas  within  the  head  of  the  law  of  Obedience, 
which  are  to  be  known  as  our  real  life  and  its  true  living. 

It  is  to  be  our  work  to  apply  this  one  meaning  to  all  of  God's 
creation^  that  we  may  see  it  all  as  good  and  perceive  the  Christ's 
presence  therein  as  a  power  of  Spirit  at  work. 

In  order  to  do  this  we  shall  have  to  commit  these  tables  to 
memory  that  we  may  know  the  full  life-love-truth  meaning  of 
these  ideas  and  realize  that  it  is  a  spiritual  law^  and  be  able  to 
apply  it  to  created  things,  thereby  proving  God's  presence  and 
power  to  make  all  things  right  which  appear  to  be  wrong.  For 
every  false  concept  coming  through  material  sense  must  be  re- 
placed with  a  right  one  which  has  power  within  itself  to  prevail 
and  stand. 

This  is  the  interpretation  of  things  which  reveals  the  action 
and  presence  of  life.  It  holds  us  to  the  one  spiritual  interpreta- 
tion and  leaves  no  room  for  mortal  imaginations  to  creep  in  and 
defile  our  thoughts. 

As  the  tables  are  complete  and  perfect,  they  can  be  learned  in 
perfection  and  soon  take  possession  of  our  being  and  begin  to 
guide  us  aright  with  the  one  Christ-meaning  uppermost  in 
thought. 

They  cannot  be  too  closely  studied  nor  too  diligently  followed 
and  in  learning  them  will  we  be  on  safe  ground  in  our  actions 
and  living,  for  we  shall  find  that  mortal  mind  will  oppose  them 
in  every  way  possible. 

Relations  of  the  Ideas  of  the  Point  of  Obedience. 

The  three  stages  of  life-action  within  the  realm  of  mind  have 
already  been  referred  to,  the  first  one  of  which  is  represented  by 
obedience.  It  finds  us  in  the  mortal  or  physical  state  of  belief 
as  in  imagination,  from  which  we  are  to  arise  into  the  concept  of 
dominion  because  we  have  gained  it  through  being  obedient. 
Now,  having  gained  these  two  we  are  qualified  to  understand 
true  spiritual  being  and  receive  the  highest  state. 


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Dominion  is  higher  than  obedience  because  it  contains  obe- 
dience^ and  when  we  have  gained  these  two  are  we  worthy  and 
able  also  to  enter  into  true  spiritual  being. 

This  law  as  well  as  others  must  be  applied  regularly  and  com- 
prehensively to  all  parts  of  the  Star^  and  the  following  pages 
are  intended  to  show  just  how  the  Star  may  be  studied  with 
profit. 

Beginning  with  loyalty  we  find  that  we  are  loyal  only  when 
we  are  loyal  to  the  law ;  and  in  this  state  of  consciousness  we  are 
able  to  understand  that  judgment  is  not  a  choice  between  good 
and  evil  but  a  prevailing  of  one  right,  and  through  this  concept 
are  we  qualified  to  have  understanding.  Now  it  will  be  seen 
that  these  three  ideas  are  the  first  ones  within  each  realm  of  life, 
love,  truth;  they  are  situated  within  the  points  of  the  Star  in 
the  third  revelation  of  mind,  and  give  us  the  order  of  gaining 
understanding  as  loyalty,  judgment,  understanding. 

Taking  service  next,  we  find  that  when  we  serve  the  law  only 
do  we  become  honest,  and  that  by  serving  the  law  honestly  we 
gain  a  true  consciousness,  and  that  the  true  order  of  gaining  a 
spiritual  consciousness  is  in  service,  honesty,  consciousness. 
These  are  the  three  stages  of  growth. 

Next,  taking  loveliness,  we  find  that  having  gained  loveliness 
then  are  we  justified  therein,  for  loveliness  as  a  law  of  justice  is 
justified,  and  then  do  we  come  into  the  concept  of  creation,  in 
its  orderly  attainment  of  loveliness,  justification,  creation. 

This  will  help  the  student  to  discover  the  relation  of  life's 
meaning  in  the  three  realms  of  life,  love,  truth,  and  also  to  use 
them  in  application  to  every  thing  of  good  in  creation. 

Out  of  a  consciousness  of  loyalty  do  we  find  that  service  is 
necessarily  present  as  an  unavoidable  accompaniment;  and  hav- 
ing loyalty  and  service  present  in  conscience  we  cannot  avoid  be- 
coming lovely  and  lovable.  For  these  states  of  mind  come  in 
order  as  an  infallible  law  of  right  thought.  We  must  not  forget 
that  in  the  realm  of  life  that  it  is  the  concept  of  love  which 
compels  us  to  know;  for  we  cannot  have  love  in  heart  and  not 
know  God.     This  law  prevails  within  the  life  point  of  obedience 


92  The  Christ-Law 

and  it  is  loveliness  which  compels  us  to  know  that  we  are 
obedient. 

Next^  taking  the  idea  of  faith  as  the  love  of  loyalty^  we  find 
that  fidelity  follows  perfect  faith,  and  that  having  these  two  we 
are  obliged  to  manifest  allegiance.  Here  we  find  that  in  the  realm 
of  truth,  or  in  a  truth  point,  or  in  a  truth  idea,  the  law  is  the 
same,  and  that  it  is  life-action  which  compels  us  to  know,  even 
allegiance  to  prove  our  loyalty.  Out  of  allegiance  and  fidelity 
is  ministration  made  present,  followed  by  diligence  as  a  result  of 
allegiance  and  ministration.  This  is  followed  by  adoration  as 
the  love  of  service  and  is  that  which  makes  us  know  service,  for 
it  is  love  as  possession  in  the  realm  of  life  which  compels  us  to 
know.  It  is  well  to  take  notice  of  these  powers  of  mind  and 
their  action,  for  we  are  to  become  well  acquainted  with  them. 

Out  of  the  concept  of  diligence  and  adoration  do  we  get  grati- 
tude, which  concept  is  followed  by  charity  as  an  outcome  of 
adoration  and  gratitude.  Finally  we  come  to  patience  as  the 
truth  of  loveliness,  and  it  is  the  product  of  gratitude  and  charity. 
As  truth  in  the  realm  of  love  is  that  power  of  mind  which  com- 
pels us  to  know,  then  patience  as  the  truth  of  loveliness  is 
proof  of  our  loveliness. 

In  this  way  are  we  to  study  the  states  of  consciousness  given  in 
the  Star  and  gain  a  clear  understanding  of  them  for  our  future 
use,  so  that  we  shall  be  protected  from  all  suggestions  of  the 
mortal  consciousness,  and  be  healed  of  false  expressions,  which 
give  us  fear,  disease  and  sickness,  and  ultimately  destroy  our  right 
thoughts  altogether. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  This  Head  of  the  Law. 

As  each  point  of  the  Star  and  head  of  the  law  are  taken  up, 
an  endeavor  will  be  made  to  show  the  relation  between  them; 
first,  with  the  commandments  as. given  by  Moses,  and  second, 
with  the  sermon  on  the  mount  as  given  by  Jesus  the  Christ.  For 
these  two  portrayals  of  the  law  seem  to  conform  perfectly  with  the 
law  as  given  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  The  one  perfectly  il- 
luminates and  completes  the  other,  making  them  understandable 
from   the   standpoint   of   one   interpretation,   that   of   life-action. 


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love-substance^  truth-perfection^  and  give  us  a  certain  way  of 
knowing  these  three  powers  of  mind  which  compel  us  to  know 
the  Christ. 

"Hear^  O  Israel^  the  Lord  our  God  is  one  Lord." 

This^  the  very  foundation  of  all  the  commandments,  means  one 
absolute  law,  and  is  in  fact  the  first  realization  which  we  are  to 
acquire.  It  comes  to  us  best  as  an  ever-present  presence,  which 
presence  is  the  aggregate  of  all  spiritual  laws  of  right  and  truth 
in  perfect  idea  entities. 

From  this  center  of  all  knowledge  called  mind  come  the  three 
basic  ideas  of  life,  love,  truth;  and  from  them  radiate  all  other 
ideas. 

This  first  commandment  refers  to  the  center  of  the  Star  as 
Mind,  and  this  is  followed  by  the  second  commandment  which 
Moses  gave,  and  it  was  confirmed  by  Jesus  as  being  the  greatest 
commandment,  at  least  there  was  none  greater,  for  it  covers  all 
others  and  from  it  spring  all  of  the  others. 

"Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thine  heart,  (all  of 
thy  heart's  love),  and  with  all  thy  soul  (all  of  thy  soul's  life- 
action),  and  with  all  thy  might  (with  all  the  power  of  perfect 
truth). 

We  must  not  overlook  the  fact  that  these  two  commandments 
are  one  in  substance,  even  as  the  Father  and  Christ  are  one. 

This  commandment  as  applied  to  the  law  as  given  in  the  Star 
means  that  we  should  seek  to  know  the  one  supreme  law  of  per- 
fection as  absolute,  and  that  its  active-substance  perfected  is  ac- 
complished through  recognizing  the  life-love-truth  meaning  of 
the  Christ-law. 

But  for  a  more  explicit  instruction  in  the  law  as  given  through 
the  commandments  by  Moses,  shorn  of  the  vail  of  a  threat  of  evil, 
which  Moses  put  over  them  in  order  to  rule  the  warring  tribes 
of  Hebrews  in  fear,  thinking  most  probably  that  love  would  not 
do  it;  we  must  look  to  the  law  as  given  by  Jesus,  which  is  por- 
trayed in  the  diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem.  In  which  is 
no  sting  of  fear  as  a  power  to  make  us  obedient. 


94  The  Christ-Law 

God's  love,  and  it  alone,  will  express  the  power  of  Mind, 
otherwise  there  is  no  power,  for  God's  kingdom  cannot  be  op- 
posed to  itself  and  stand. 

Obedience  as  the  life  of  love,  is  the  substance  of  the  first 
commandment,  and  composes  the  first  head  of  the  absolute  law. 

The  First  Commandent. 

In  Exodus  20:2,  3,  we  read  a  preface  to  all  of  the  command- 
ments, which  should  be  repeated  before  each  one  in  order  to  re- 
mind us  of  the  allness  of  the  power  of  love  and  that  it  has  al- 
ready prevailed. 

(Because)  "Im  the  Lord  thy  God,  which  have  brought  thee 
out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the  house  of  bondage.*'  There- 
fore, for  this  reason  alone  we  can  be  obedient;  and  when  we 
are  obedient  do  we  fulfill  the  requirements  of  the  first  com- 
mandment. 

"Thou  shalt  have  no  other  gods  before  me." 

To  be  obedient  is  to  express  the  ideas  of  obedience,  those  of 
loveliness  in  the  first  point  of  the  Star;  to  learn  to  live  and  to 
hold  a  spiritual  consciousness  of  love  for  the  law  in  all  of  its 
ways. 

For  only  in  manifesting  loveliness  can  we  keep  the  law  of 
love,  because  loveliness  is  the  very  soul  and  intent  of  obedience 
to  a  God  of  love.  Because  we  are  already  brought  up  (realize 
ourselves  as  spiritual  mentalities )  out  of  the  house  of  bondage 
to  sense  illusions,  and  being  healed  of  our  allegiance  to  them, 
then  we  shall  not  have,  that  is  not  know  to  have,  any  other  gods 
but  good  as  constructive  love,  for  good  and  love  have  become  all 
and  final  in  consciousness. 

The  Law  as  Given  in  Matthew. 

The  sermon  on  the  mount  as  given  by  Jesus  is  a  perfect  re- 
hearsal of  the  whole  law,  complete  and  full  in  every  respect.  It 
is  given  in  the  Bible  in  the  fifth,  sixth  and  seventh  chapters  of 
Matthew.  The  fifth  chapter  is  devoted  to  the  realm  of  love; 
while  the  sixth  is  devoted  to  the  realm  of  truth;  and  the  seventh 
is  given  to  the  realm  of  life.     Herein  is  the  law  given  in  the 


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Order  of  the   Candlestick  and  also  in  the   Star  of   Bethlehem, 
therefore  they  are  taken  up  in  this  order  as  referred  to. 

In  chapter  5,  Jesus  starts  out  in  his  discourse  of  the  law 
with  nine  beatitudes,  one  for  each  point  of  the  Star  as  a  head  of 
the  law.  And  as  they  are  taken  up  an  effort  will  be  made  to 
associate  them  with  the  ideas  as  states  of  perfect  being  which 
are  given  as  the  law  in  the  Star. 

The  First  Beatitude. 

"Blessed  are  the  poor  in  spirit;  for  theirs'  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven." 

Luke  gives  it  ^*Blessed  be  ye  poor." 

To  give  it  meaning,  according  to  one  lawful  interpretation,  it 
would  read  as  follows:  Blessed  are  the  poor  in  all  materiality, 
for  in  the  spirit  theirs'  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

This  would  make  sense  of  this  beatitude  and  accord  with  one 
law,  for  to  be  poor  in  loveliness  certainly  would  not  reveal  the 
kingdom  of  heaven,  but  to  be  poor  in  hate  would  open  a  way  to 
gain  loveliness  or  heaven. 

Jesus  said  to  the  young  man  who  was  rich  materially  to  go 
and  sell  it  all  and  give  it  to  the  needy  and  then  to  come  and 
follow  him  in  loveliness  if  he  would  be  perfect  before  the  law  in 
obedience. 

When  we  have  much  to  do  with  materiality  we  are  kept  from 
spiritual  things,  for  the  very  nature  of  matter  in  its  strife  of 
seeming  existence,  worldly  desires,  ambitions,  etc.,  certainly 
hide  the  blessing  of  spiritual  understanding  of  the  perfect  Christ- 
law. 

The  Lord's  Prayer. 

In  the  sixth  chapter  of  Matthew,  Jesus  gave  the  whole  law 
again  in  a  different  way,  which  is  known  as  the  Lord's  prayer. 
This  also  has  nine  sections,  each  one  of  which  is  in  order  closely 
associated  with  the  law  as  given  in  the  Star,  and  will  be  so  de- 
scribed. 

"Our  Father  which  art  in  heaven." 


96  The  Christ-Law 

This  first  section  is  intended  to  reveal  the  law  of  perfect 
obedience  as  the  beginning  and  immortal  continuation  of  the  law 
of  all  being  in  harmony  or  heaven. 

The  "Our"  is  to  remind  us  of  our  reflection  of  the  Father  in 
which  we  live^  move  and  have  our  being  through  obedience. 

"Father"  demands  and  expresses  obedience^  and  brings  us  in 
touch  with  a  concept  of  our  Creator^  whose  presence  as  the  power 
of  Spirit  we  should  never  lose  sight  of  for  a  single  instant. 

"Which  art  in  heaven"  completes  our  perfect  harmony  as  an 
absolute  law  which  governs  everything  in  the  universe  without 
divergence  or  fault. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matthew  V^  verses  13  to  21,  Our  Saviour  begins  his  dis- 
course by  describing  the  first  head  of  the  law  in  obedience ;  for  he 
says,  "Ye  are  the  salt  of  the  earth/'  meaning  that  the  obedient 
were  those  who  manifested  the  law,  but  having  lost  your  obedi- 
ence, you  are  then  good  for  nothing  but  to  be  cast  out  from 
service  under  the  protection  of  the  law,  where  you  will  be  trodden 
upon  by  the  hateful  mortal-sense  man. 

He  also  says,  "Ye  are  the  light  of  the  world."  Meaning  that 
the  obedient  are  those  who  give  forth  evidence  of  the  law;  which 
cannot  be  hidden,  for  life-action  will  make  itself  known  in  dem- 
onstration, and  he  tells  us  plainly  to  make  our  obedience  known  in 
demonstration,  that  we  may  openly  glorify  our  Father  in  active- 
life  as  the  will  of  good. 

In  verse  17  he  warns  us  not  to  misinterpret  him,  for  he  as 
the  absolute  law  did  not  come  to  do  evil,  neither  to  express  evil, 
but  to  fulfill  the  one  absolute  law  of  perfect  obedience,  through 
explaining  and  manifesting  it.  He  further  says  that  the  prophe- 
sies which  had  been  given  in  accordance  with  the  law  should 
none  of  them  be  found  to  be  untrue,  but  that  they  should  all  be 
fulfilled,  that  is,  prevail  completely  and  absolutely.  Also  that  if 
we  break  one  of  the  least  of  these  commandments,  then  we  shall 
be  least  in  the  kingdom  of  harmony,  but  if  we  keep  them  we 
shall  prosper  in  harmonious  expressions.  Finally,  He  tells  us 
that  to  be  able  to  get  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven  at  all  we  must 


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be  honestly  obedient  in  loveliness   apart   from   appearance   and 
deceitful  imaginations. 

These  four  references  are  intended  to  show  the  relation  of  the 
law  as  given  by  Moses  and  Jesus  also^  to  be  the  same  as  that 
which  is  portrayed  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem,  and  that  to  keep 
the  head  of  the  law  of  obedience  is  to  keep  the  law  and  fulfill  its 
meaning;  by  this  means  we  can  all  have  one  understandable  in- 
terpretation for  the  whole  law  and  all  come  together  in  one 
concept  of  God. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

HOLINESS 

Thr  Love  of  Love. 

A  law  of  measure  giving  one  perfect  standard. 

In  our  analysis  and  investigation  of  spiritual  being,  it  is  abso- 
lutely necessary  that  we  have  one  perfect  standard  of  measure, 
which  must  be  simple  and  easily  understood  so  that  all  people 
may  grasp  it  with  understanding  and  be  able  to  use  it  to  work 
out  their  life  problems  here. 

In  Isa.  35.8,  we  read,  "And  an  highway  shall  be  there,  and  a 
way,  and  it  shall  be  called  The  Way  of  Holiness;  the  unclean 
shall  not  pass  over  it,  but  it  shall  be  for  those:  the  wayfaring 
men,  though  fools  shall  not  err  therein.*' 

Holiness  as  a  realization  of  good  in  heart  is  simple,  very  de- 
sirable, satisfying  and  most  beautiful,  and  we  are  led  by  its 
power  both  consciously  and  unconsciously  to  become  perfect 
therein. 

Our  Father  in  His  wonderful  wisdom  and  great  goodness  has 
given  us  an  indestructible  standard,  the  standard  of  holiness  as 
the  love  of  love,  with  its  one  Christ-meaning  of  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection,  which  is  a  triune  law  of  perfection. 

All  action  is  the  living  will  of  good ;  and  is  a  spontaneous  voli- 
tion of  Spirit  to  manifest  the  love  of  love  as  the  holiness  of  God. 
It  is  always  in  its  own  image  of  perfection  as  the  spiritual  sub- 
stance of  Mind.  It  is  the  one  true  standard  of  infallible  right  as 
good,  everliving,  and  without  change.  The  substance  of  good 
all  around  and  about  us  is  everywhere  present  if  we  will  but 
open  our  eyes  and  behold  it,  and  it  alone;  then  shall  we  gain  the 
true  consciousness  of  love  from  looking  with  intent  to  see  love 
as  holiness.  When  we  stop  for  a  moment  and  turn  from  our 
fury  of   sensations   to   consider   how  love  leads   us   through   the 


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awful  temptation  of  sense  suggestions,  because  of  its  attractive 
power  of  love  as  good,  we  then  realize  that  there  is  a  power  of 
Mind  in  love;  and  that  its  one  true  standard  is  good,  one  eternal 
constructive  good. 

Worldly  holiness  as  a  false  sense  of  love  soon  becomes  human 
lust,  that  is,  the  going  after  material  possessions  through  sensa- 
tion, as  the  desire  to  possess  wealth,  fame,  social  standing,  politi- 
cal and  ecclesiastical  power  to  gratify  mortal  ambition.  But  this 
is  not  the  love  of  love,  holiness,  but  the  love  of  self,  and  has 
nothing  to  do  with  God.  Of  course,  people  who  do  not  believe  in 
God  apart  from  mortality,  and  who  are  self-sufficient  in  their 
material  fortification  of  wealth  and  self-will,  cannot  and  will  not 
understand  any  other  good  but  material  success  alone.  Neverthe- 
less, there  is  one  and  it  shall  prevail.  Mortal  self  as  the  direct 
opposite  of  God  and  His  law,  does  not  manifest  constructive 
good,  for  it  is  the  outcome  of  selfish  suggestion  as  a  mere  sense- 
imagination  of  love. 

That  everpresent  infinite  presence  of  good,  as  the  one  law  of 
perfection  giving  the  life-love-truth  meaning  of  all  things  when 
followed,  will  lead  us  into  a  realization  of  holiness;  which  is 
Christ's  presence  as  real  substantial  love.  It  is  the  glory  of 
sanctified  good;  the  sacredness  of  purified  being;  not  from  the 
standpoint  of  outward  sense  appearance  in  pomp  and  show  of 
worldly  things,  neither  in  the  exhibit  of  force  through  repressive 
mortal  laws  which  instill  fear  into  the  heart  instead  of  love,  for 
this  is  but  an  impotent  and  hopeless  impression  of  power. 

On  the  other  hand,  from  the  standpoint  of  one  constructive 
good,  as  Christ's  presence  in  each  and  every  individual  heart,  and 
because  of  the  realized  presence  of  the  testimony  of  the  Spirit 
of  truth  within,  we  need  no  impotent  idol  of  flesh  and  blood  to 
usurp  its  leadership,  place,  presence,  or  power  here  in  the  earth. 

The  worship  today  of  sensation,  or  sense  appearance,  as  the 
desire  to  experience  material  show  and  pomp,  also  as  the  ag- 
grandizement of  selfishness,  in  our  finer  buildings,  our  immense 
wealth,  our  greater  exclusiveness  and  more  lavish  expenditures, 
thereby  dividing  the  rich  and  the  poor  in  what  should  be  God's 


100  The  Christ-Law 

kingdom  of  unity  and  love,  is  but  the  foolish  surface  or  appear- 
ance of  holiness_,  for  it  does  not  produce  a  consciousness  of  love. 

It  does  not  give  peace  as  a  realization  of  good  in  the  souls  of 
men;  it  is  rather  a  cause  of  fear,  hate,  pride,  deceit,  and  rivalry, 
based  upon  the  standard  of  money  instead  of  constructive  good; 
upon  money,  the  root  of  evil  enticement,  and  not  upon  love. 

When  we  know  holiness  as  the  love  of  love,  and  not  that  of 
money,  fame,  power  or  anything  material,  we  shall  cease  to  be 
attracted  to  the  appearances  of  holiness  in  fine  gowns  and  any 
material  show  whatever,  for  we  shall  be  content  to  know  it  by 
its  deeds  of  good  which  come  from  within,  and  no  longer  give 
our  allegiance  to  the  standard  of  money. 

Holiness  as  the  second  point  of  the  Star  stands  for  the  love  of 
love.  When  we  begin  to  be  obedient  we  are  led  into  a  concept 
of  holiness,  and  when  we  are  obedient  we  find  holiness  present 
also,  for  these  two  cannot  be  separated.  Holiness  is  the  love 
of  being  lovely,  the  love  of  loveliness.  It  becomes  a  power  of 
Mind  within  us  and  attracts  all  good  things  and  these  alone. 
When  we  associate  love  with  constructive  good,  then  we  realize 
that  the  joy  of  good  received  is  our  understanding  of  love  and 
we  are  on  the  road  to  perceive  love  as  holiness.  Good  received  or 
given  out  is  love,  is  holiness,  and  no  matter  how  dim  our  under- 
standing of  this  fact  may  be,  with  a  very  little  attention  we  shall 
perceive  that  good  is  love,  and  that  it  must  be  developed  into  a 
strong  part  of  our  character. 

An  honest  intent  is  our  first  requisite  in  procuring  this  most 
desirable  quality  of  loveliness  and  with  it  many  things  can  be 
accomplished  which  would  otherwise  be  impossible. 

Holiness  is  more  than  the  liking  of  good;  it  is  the  faithful 
allegiance  to  the  good  from  which  we  cannot  be  swayed  because 
we  know  good.  Holiness  is  the  substance  of  both  obedience  and 
harmony  and  is  the  basis  of  all  right  thoughts,  that  substantial 
good  out  of  which  every  love  concept  is  made  and  expressed. 

There  are  few  of  us  who  having  experienced  the  joy  of  good 
received  are  not  looking  for  more  of  the  same,  and  should  be 
ready  and  awake  to  recognize  the  source  of  its  presence  and 
open  the  way  for  its  return  that  we  may  become  more  familiar 


Holiness  .:>.'>'''' **'^ '1(>1^ 

with  it;  and  less  familiar  with  the  things  which  come  to  us  from 
the  realm  of  outer  darkness^  for  these  things  bring  confusion  and 
doubt  and  are  none  of  them  good. 

It  is  very  essential  that  we  understand  just  what  is  meant  by 
the  one  standard  of  "holiness'*;  for  to  continue  any  longer  with 
two  standards^  striving  to  harmonize  both  good  and  evil  as  a 
standard  is  but  confusion. 

We  are  obliged  each  day  to  choose  which  one  we  will  serve ;  the 
one  of  death  in  sense  concepts_,  or  the  one  of  life  in  Mind  as  soul 
experiences. 

God  did  not  make  man  a  hypocrite^  an  idolator^  nor  a  dualist^ 
but  made  him  without  spot  or  blemish  in  his  own  image  and 
likeness  of  Mind  or  Spirit^  as  an  active  spiritual  mentality,  that 
he  might  express  this  one  standard  of  holiness  as  the  love  of 
love. 

In  Mathew  12:25,  we  read,  **Every  kingdom  divided  against 
itself  is  brought  to  desolation,  and  every  city  or  house  divided 
against  itself  shall  not  stand." 

This  saying  is  very  significant  as  to  that  which  God  created  as 
man,  and  commanded  to  walk  in  the  one  law  of  holiness;  that 
he  might  work  out  his  problems  in  perfection.  We  should  look 
within  our  own  house  of  conscience  and  see  that  it  is  not  divided 
against  itself  with  sense  testimony  and  soul  testimony,  for  such 
a  house  shall  not  stand.  We  must  choose  without  any  hesitation 
between  these  two  methods  of  receiving  information,  and  abide 
in  the  one  or  the  other  exclusively. 

When  we  begin  to  realize  that  life  is  not  a  chaotic  terror  of 
confusion  and  uncertainty,  governed  by  two  standards  of 
interpretation,  in  which  both  good  and  evil  seem  to  prevail;  but 
that  it  is  rather  in  perfect  accord  with  a  law  of  good  only,  whicli 
can  be  learned  and  demonstrated  with  positive  certainty,  then 
will  we  awake  and  employ  this  principle  of  good,  to  manifest 
these  right  ideas  as  states  of  perfect  being  which  overcome  the 
evil  as  a  terror  of  confusion. 

All  of  these  states  of  perfect  being  are  in  unison  with  the 
standard  of  holiness,  because  holiness  is  the  very  foundation  of 
good  and  love. 


ids    "  '      "    '  "■     "  '<-'\      The  Christ-Law 

And  in  the  proportion  to  our  understanding  of  the  law  will  our 
ability  to  heal  ourselves  and  others  depend^  also  our  progress  in 
overcoming  sin  be  made  manifest. 

In  Matthew  12:31,  32,  we  read,  ** Wherefore  I  say  unto  you. 
All  manner  of  sin  and  blasphemy  shall  be  forgiven  unto  men; 
but  the  blasphemy  against  the  Holy  Ghost  shall  not  be  forgiven 
unto  men." 

^*And  whosoever  speaketh  a  word  against  the  Son  of  Man  it 
shall  be  forgiven  him;  but  whosoever  speaketh  against  the  Holy 
Ghost,  it  shall  not  be  forgiven  him,  neither  in  this  world,  neither 
in  the  world  to  come.*' 

The  Spirit  of  truth  or  the  Holy  Ghost  as  the  Spirit  of  the 
perfect  law  of  righteousness,  and  as  the  power  of  the  principle 
of  all  right  ideas,  which  has  holiness  as  its  one  standard  of 
measure;  is  that  perfect  law  of  spiritual  knowing,  by  means  of 
which  only,  we  can  work  out  our  problems  in  living  correctly. 
No  matter  just  what  deception  we  have  been  laboring  under  in 
sin,  by  means  of  this  scientific  law  it  can  be  cast  out  and  over- 
come. Even  all  manner  of  sin  and  blasphemy  shall  be  overcome 
in  this  way,  and  by  means  of  this  law.  Opposition  even  to  the 
Son  of  man  and  good  in  general  shall  be  overcome,  because  of  the 
testimony  of  the  Spirit  of  truth  of  one  standard  of  holiness  within 
our  conscience;  which  is  to  seal  our  understanding  of  love  as  all. 

Now  if  we  deny  this  perfect  law  or  principle  of  right  ideas, 
and  blaspheme  against  the  Spirit  of  truth  as  a  law  of  right  and 
good  within  our  conscience,  thereby  do  we  deprive  ourselves  of 
the  very  means  through  which  we  might  gain  our  forgiveness 
in  the  destruction  of  the  sin.  Until  we  turn  from  our  willful 
way  this  sin  of  denying  the  law  shall  not  be  overcome,  neither 
here  or  hereafter,  not  until  we  are  called  of  God,  that  is  until 
we  learn  to  be  attracted  to  the  good  as  love. 

In  John  6:44,  %^,  we  have  a  reference  to  this  subject. 

"No  man  can  come  to  me  except  the  Father  which  hath 
sent  me  draw  him,  and  I  will  raise  him  up  at  the  last  day.*' 

"And  he  said.  Therefore  said  I  unto  you,  that  no  man  can 
come  unto  me  except  it  were  given  unto  him  of  my  Father." 


Holiness  103 

From  this  saying  we  are  to  understand  that  no  man  can  come 
into  the  realization  of  the  Christ  consciousness  except  he  is  born 
of  that  nature  and  disposition  which  seeks  good  in  preference  to 
evil;  and  is  attracted  to  the  good  as  love  because  of  its  nature; 
wherein  he  will  be  raised  up  out  of  the  death  concepts  of  ma- 
terial sense  testimony,  and  into  a  living  understanding  of  holi- 
ness as  the  love  of  love. 

How  can  we  best  gain  this  understanding  of  holiness  as  the 
law  of  the  love  of  love,  and  live  therein? 

We  must  first  discover  within  our  own  heart's  consciousness 
the  one  Christ-meaning  of  holiness.  We  begin  with  consecration 
as  the  life-action  of  holiness,  for  when  we  consecrate  our- 
selves to  the  one  perfect  law  through  knowing  obedience,  we 
are  brought  into  a  realization  of  holiness.  In  this  consciousness 
we  find  sanctity  as  the  love  substance  of  holiness  and  are  sanc- 
tified therein.  We  are  sanctified  because  of  the  power  of  good  in 
this  law  of  perfection  as  the  holiness  of  love.  In  this  state  of 
true  love  are  we  purified  through  the  power  of  its  presence. 

To  consecrate  ourselves  to  the  one  law  of  perfection  is  to 
dedicate  our  thoughts  and  actions  in  veneration  and  devotion 
unto  love.  (Note  these  ideas  upon  the  Star.)  Therein  we  learn 
to  love  and  to  be  lovely  and  lovable ;  through  looking  at  all 
times  to  see  the  good  with  intent  to  express  the  law  of  life,  love, 
truth.  Herein  are  we  taught  the  sanctity  which  the  law  of  holi- 
ness brings  into  consciousness  by  way  of  communion  with  the 
Spirit  of  truth,  giving  grace  and  sacredness  to  our  being. 

As  we  consecrate  ourselves  to  the  service  of  good  we  are 
sanctified  therein,  and  our  reflected  image  of  holiness  becomes 
purified;  and  the  very  cleanness  of  our  hearts  and  immaculate- 
ness  of  our  being  is  given  life  by  virtue,  as  the  purity  of  holiness. 

Holiness  is  that  substance  or  possession  of  good  which  is  lived 
and  made  perfect,  and  as  a  head  of  the  law  we  are  to  learn  of  its 
substance  as  our  only  possession  of  truth,  it  is  to  be  the  founda- 
tion of  a  sacred  conscience;  and  is  to  be  our  realization  of  virtue 
as  the  purity  of  love  which  is  the  essential  part  of  the  whole  law. 


104 


The  Christ-Law 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Law  of  Holiness 


Holiness 
Wickedness 


Consecration 
Perversity 


.   Sanctity 
Blasphemy 


Dedication 
Veneration 
Devoutness 

i  Communion 

-]  Grace 

(  Sacredness 


Aversion 
Dishonor 
Disregard 

Scorn 

Corruption 

Profanity 


Puritv  \  Cleanness  Filthiness 

Adulteration       1  Immaculateness  Sin 
Adulteration       /  yj^.^^^  ^.^^ 


HOLINESS,    THE    Love    of    Love,    versus    WICKEDNESS, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Wickedness  signifies  the  aggressive  hatred  of  the  mortal  con- 
sciousness^ which  is  an  imaginary  or  counterfeit  sense-mind. 
This  mind  has  no  action  or  ability  of  its  own^  but  seeks  to  express 
its  evil  intent  by  borrowing  from-  us  the  use  of  our  God-given 
life-action;  for  this  reason  we  must  be  awake  and  not  be  drawn 
into  any  such  deal  with  evil. 

Because  of  the  law  of  right  and  good  in  Spirit^  these  illusions 
can  be  definitely  discovered  and  avoided;  their  nothingness  is 
made  very  apparent  to  us  when  we  withhold  our  life-action  from 
them.  We  must  seek  the  law  of  spiritual  righteousness  that  we 
may  know  the  presence  of  the  Christ  and  therein  receive  the 
knowledge  and  power  to  resist  these  false  states  of  seeming 
being. 

An  understanding  of  holiness  is  the  best  way  to  clear  out  of 
consciousness  all  sense  of  wickedness^  that  we  may  be  free  in 
the  love  of  love. 


CONSECRATION,  the  Life  of  Holiness,  versus  PERVERS- 
ITY,  AS   A   Death    Concept. 

Perversity  is  a  mortal  state  of  hatred  which  manifests  no  good 
or  attachment  to  anything.      It  is  not  found  within  the  law  of 


Holiness  105 

the  Christ,  hence  is  not  real  or  true.  Perversity  opposes  all  good 
and  right  and  is  an  imperfect  sense  expression  of  death.  Its 
intent  is  to  rob  us  of  a  concept  of  action  in  doing  good,  because 
of  suggestion  of  bad  which  has  no  meaning  apart  from  nothing- 
ness. Even  as  there  is  no  darkness  in  the  presence  of  the  sun, 
so  there  is  no  darkness  of  perversity  in  the  law  of  the  Christ, 
which  is  represented  by  consecration  to  the  law. 

SANCTITY,  THE  Love  of  Holiness,  versus  BLASPHEMY, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

To  blaspheme  against  the  law  is  the  one  unforgiven  sin,  for  it 
deprives  us  of  the  one  means  of  delivery  from  sin.  We  cannot 
blaspheme  against  the  Spirit  of  truth  in  declaring  an  evil  oppo- 
sition to  the  good,  and  at  the  same  time  gain  the  benefit  of  the 
law's  power  to  deliver  us  from  this  very  sin.  To  find  sanctity 
in  the  expression  of  the  law  is  to  be  healed  of  all  manner  of  sin 
as  mortal  expressions  apart  from  the  law. 

It  is  the  law  of  love  or  holiness  which  sanctifies,  and  makes 
pure  our  thoughts  and  acts  and  delivers  us  from  blasphemy  in 
sense  concepts. 

PURITY,    THE    Truth    of    Holiness,    versus    ADULTERA- 
TION, AS   A   False   Concept. 

Adulteration  is  a  false  suggestion  with  the  meaning  to  defile, 
or  to  destroy;  and  is  a  careless,  thoughtless  mortal  expression  of 
imperfection.  In  God's  kingdom  there  is  no  adulteration,  for 
His  word  cannot  be  adulterated  in  any  way;  that  is,  nothing 
can  be  added  to  it,  or  taken  from  its  already  perfect  state  of 
being. 

We  must  be  very  careful  not  to  defile  our  own  selfhood 
through  adulterating  the  lawful  thoughts  with  unlawful  ex- 
pressions of  sense  experiences;  for  these  evil  things  seem  to 
appear  at  every  turn  and  are  exceedingly  persistent  in  their 
subtle  suggestions. 

Purity  is  our  one  safe  place  of  abode,  and  we  cannot  afford 
to  neglect  this  state  of  perfect  being  within  the  Christ-law.      . 


106  The  Christ-Law 

DEDICATION,  the  Truth  of  Consecration,  versus  AVER- 
SION,  AS   A   False   Concept. 

Aversion  is  the  mortal  consciousfness  of  the  impotent  self, 
from  which  we  are  to  be  delivered.  This  concept  is  a  desire  to 
turn  from  everything  because  of  the  confusion  of  good  and  evil 
consciousness,  and  it  is  overcome  when  we  lose  sight  of  self  as 
evil.  When  we  make  up  our  minds  to  cease  to  look  for  evil  ap- 
pearances and  turn  our  thoughts  into  the  perfect  channel  of  the 
law,  and  so  consecrate  ourselves  to  the  law,  shall  we  overcome  the 
sense  of  aversion. 

We  must  actually  dedicate  ourselves  to  serve  the  law  of  reality 
alone  as  those  states  of  being  which  prevail  and  manifest  life- 
action,  for  in  these  only  are  we  delivered  from  expressing  the 
false  thoughts  of  aversion. 

VENERATION,    the    Life    of    Consecration,    versus    DIS- 
HONOR,  AS   A    Death    Concept. 

To  dishonor  is  the  hate  in  fear  because  of  opposition  which 
we  do  not  understand;  the  mortal  concepts  are  all  of  them  dis- 
honorable because  they  serve  self  instead  of  the  law  in  venera- 
tion. When  we  know  the  allness  of  one  right  law  we  are  bound 
to  venerate  this  state  of  perfect  being  in  its  power  of  good.  Be- 
cause of  this  good  we  are  forced  to  release  the  false  conscious- 
ness of  dishonor;  in  it  we  would  be  dishonored  ourselves,  for  we 
are  commanded  to  walk  in  the  law  of  honor  and  dedicate  our 
hearts  to  it. 

DEVOUTNESS,   the    Love    of    Consecration,   versus    DIS- 
REGARD,  AS   A   Hate    Concept. 

To  disregard  the  law  of  Christ's  teaching  is  to  be  left  in  the 
darkness  of  mortal  imagination;  we  cannot  disregard  truth  and 
right  in  life  action,  for  if  we  do  we  are  left  in  the  mortal  belief 
of  the  lie  and  wrong  in  death  or  nothingness,  and  do  not  express 
spiritual  being. 

Mortal  imagination  says  that  it  is  real,  and  it  certainly  seems 
real;  but  it  cannot  prove  its  reality  except  through  the  testimony 


Holiness  107 

of  itself^  which  in  any  law  is  not  accepted  as  true.  The  law  of 
good  and  right  has  prevailed  against  it  and  has  the  self-inherent 
power  to  prove  its  ability,  which  is  sufficient  to  convince  and 
satisfy  us.  Constant  devoutness  to  the  law  will  establish  our 
spiritual  consciousness  and  deliver  us  from  disregard. 

COMMUNION,  THE   Life   of   Sanctity,  versus   SCORN,   as 
A    Hate    Concept. 

Scorn  is  a  personification  of  the  evil  sense-mind,  in  an  un- 
lawful bondage  to  two  laws  which  has  brought  confusion  and 
fury  into  consciousness.  When  we  arrive  at  the  state  of  knowing 
one  law  and  have  therein  one  standard  we  are  free  from  this 
offensive  sense  of  fear,  which  is  an  appearance  of  something 
different  from  that  which  we  think  right.  We  must  gain  an 
understanding  and  love  of  one  law  in  order  to  be  free  from 
scorn. 

It  is  through  communion  with  love  that  we  learn  to  love  the 
law  of  love,  and  as  we  know  the  good  we  perceive  the  nothingness 
of  the  bad  as  scorn^  and  withhold  our  thought  from  this  error  of 
expression. 

GRACE,  THE  Love  of  Sanctity,  versus  CORRUPTION,  as 
A    Hate    Concept. 

Corruption  is  a  result  of  false  thinking  and  acting  which  is 
manifest  in  material  beliefs  as  something  to  be  feared;  we  must 
know  that  truth  cannot  be  corrupted  and  that  the  truth  is  the 
whole  of  being,  real  expression. 

It  is  impossible  to  make  life  as  presence,  to  cease  to  be  present, 
and  corrupt  it  with  death  as  absence;  for  the  seeming  corruption 
of  death  is  merely  a  phase  of  life's  action  in  the  process  of  its 
being.  Its  false  sense  appearance  of  an  end  concerns  sense  only, 
which  is  in  itself  imperfect  and  unreliable  and  not  to  be  fol- 
lowed. 

There  is  a  heaven  here  in  the  earth  for  those  who  can  realize 
that  one  absolute  law  is  the  only  truth  and  salvation  for  man. 


108  The  Christ-Law 

SACREDNESS,  the  Truth  of  Sanctity,  versus  PROFAN- 
ITY,, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Profanity  in  all  of  its  terrible  concepts  is  such  an  apparent 
death  thought  that  it  does  not  need  much  effort  to  put  it  out  of 
our  house  of  conscience.  '  Its  very  sense  of  viciousness  is  its  own 
destroyer.  It  comes  to  us  as  an  intense  suggestion  of  fear  be- 
cause of  the  presence  of  right. 

Not  until  we  begin  to  be  attracted  to  the  love  and  good^  be- 
cause of  the  right  therein,  shall  we  cease  to  curse  and  swear,  and 
express  the  animal  nature  in  opposition  to  the  spiritual  law. 
Sacredness  as  a  lawful  state  of  being  surely  expresses  the  Christ 
and  will  give  us  power  to  serve  Him. 

CLEANNESS,  the  Love  of  Purity,  versus   FILTHINESS, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Filthiness  is  the  utter  mortal  blindness  which  is  manifest  in 
the  acts  of  those  who  are  deep  in  material  sensations,  and  the 
old  saying  that  cleanliness  is  next  to  godliness  must  be  true  and 
reveal  the  law  of  good.  For  to  be  clean  is  to  be  right  and  good 
also,  and  include  perfect  health  of  body  as  well  as  of  mind,  that 
we  may  be  in  peace  and  harmony. 

Filthiness  covers  our  thoughts  about  and  allegiance  to  every 
form  of  disgusting  disease  and  sickness,  which,  through  its  ap- 
pearance holds  us  in  bondage  to  fear,  not  because  it  is  right  and 
good,  but  because  it  is  death,  a  seeming  something.  Often  more 
to  us  in  power  than  the  perfect  God. 

IMMACULATENESS,  the   Truth   of   Purity,   versus   SIN, 
AS  A  False  Concept. 

Sin  in  a  broad  sense  is  believing  in  any  material  appearance, 
and  the  giving  to  it  power  as  reality  and  good.  Sin  is  the  un- 
lawful use  of  our  God-given  gift  of  life-action  in  thought  upon 
material  appearances  of  evil;  we  cannot  help  ourselves  and  keep 
from  sinning  if  we  follow  this  sense  testimony  of  material  im- 
pressions, because  they  are  all  imaginations  of  good  and  evil, 
right  and  wrong. 


Holiness  109 

Immaculateness  expresses  the  absolute  law  of  one  righteous 
good^  and  seeks  the  realm  of  spirit  for  its  perfect  being  instead 
of  matter.  Sin  is  inaction  of  the  law  within  our  conscience,  and 
to  overcome  this  sin  we  must  make  active  the  ideas  of  the  law. 

VIRTUE,   THE   Life   of   Purity,   versus   VICE,   as   a   Death 

Concept. 

Vice  is  a  suggestion  from  the  evil  mortal  consciousness  because 
we  have  not  heard  the  call  of  love  and  good,  which  bids  us  come 
into  the  kingdom  of  heaven  and  be  at  peace.  The  call  of  the 
Father-law  of  love  is  irresistible  in  its  attraction  to  the  children 
of  Israel,  because  of  their  natural  desire  for  the  good.  In  this 
desire  is  an  inherent  power  to  destroy  the  concept  of  vice  and  cast 
it  out  as  a  very  undesirable  inhabitant  of  our  house  of  conscience. 
Virtue  is  the  desire  of  the  heart  for  life's  immortality,  which  it 
perceives  to  be  all  there  is  worth  while. 

Just  how  can  we  learn  to  express  the  ideas  given  in  the  fol- 
lowing tables,  and  thereby  live  in  the  right  states  of  being, 
according  to  the  Christ  consciousness  as  a  perfect  law  of  abso- 
lute perfection.^ 

We  must  first  be  sure  to  perceive  the  right  and  good  in 
the  ideas  of  the  law,  and  note  their  prevailing  over  the  seeming 
power   of  their  opponents. 

Until  we  can  accept  the  evil  as  nothingness,  not  in  theory 
as  an  appearance  but  in  fact,  can  we  understand  that  evil  is 
unreliable,  that  it  has  no  power  of  its  own,  and  for  this  reason 
we  can  be  free  from  bondage  to  evil  by  merely  reserving  our 
thought  and  direct  it  into  proper  channels  of  the  good. 

When  we  have  reached  this  state  of  consciousness  we  are 
ready  to  take  up  the  following  tables,  which  give  the  real  and 
true  expression  of  the  Christ-law  in  its  full  meaning. 

Beginning  with  the  first  table,  we  read: — 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  love  equals  love's  substan- 
tial Holiness. 

This  is  a  definition  of  holiness,  one  which  has  for  its  mean- 
ing the  Christ  idea  of  love  as  substance,  which  is  the  product 
of  life  and  truth. 


110  The  Christ-Law 

We  must  not  forget  that  love  is  good  and  that  good  realized 
in  conscience  is  our  love;  also  that  love  as  substance  is  the 
realization  of  life  made  perfect  in  truth;  from  this  we  can  see 
how  the  absolute  law  of  love  is  expressed  in  the  preceding 
table. 

Going  to  the  second  table^  we  read: — 

The  life-action  of  substantial  love  equals  truth's  perfect 
Consecration. 

The  life-action  means  the  thinking  soul-expression  of  love; 
this  is  to  be  and  is  the  perfected  state  of  consecration  and 
gives  one  definition. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with 
the  Star. 

The  Tables  in  the  Second  Point  of  the  Star  of  Holiness. 

Table    One. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Love  equals  love's  substan- 
tial Holiness. 

Table    Two. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Holiness  equals  truth's  perfect 
Consecration. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Holiness  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Sanctity. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Holiness  equals  life's  ac- 
tive Purity. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Holiness^  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind^  are 
Consecration^  Sanctity,  Purity.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Holiness. 

Table  Three. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Consecration  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial  Dedication. 

The  life-action  of  active  Consecration  equals  life's  active  Ven- 
eration. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Consecration  equal  truth's  perfect 
Devoutness. 


Holiness  111 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Consecration^  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind, 
are  Dedication,  Veneration,  Devoutness.  These  three  ideas 
represent  Consecration. 

Table   Four. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Sanctity  equals  truth's  perfect 
Communion. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Sanctity  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial  Grace. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Sanctity  equals  life's  active 
Sacredness. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Sanctity,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Communion,  Grace,  Sacredness.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Sanctity. 

Table    Five. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Purity  equals  life's  active  Clean- 
ness. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Purity  equals  truth's  perfect 
Immaculateness. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Purity  equals  love's  substantial  Virtue. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Purity,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Cleanness,  Immaculateness,  Virtue.  These  three  ideas  repre- 
sent Purity. 

The  preceding  tables  reveal  the  power  of  the  Christ-Mind 
in  its  perfection  of  completeness,  which  compels  us  to  know 
the  good  only  and  to  be  healed  therein  of  all  false  interpreta- 
tions of  Holiness. 

We  are  to  know  that  a  soul  expression  of  these  ideas  will 
deliver  us  from  the  evil  suggestion  of  their  sense  opposites. 
This  is  because  evil  in  any  form  cannot  answer  to  our  demand 
that  it  reveal  unto  us  the  Christ  meaning  of  life,  love,  truth. 
This  demand  alone  will  serve  to  separate  the  good  from  the 
evil  and  therein  make  us  free  from  deception. 


112  The  Christ-Law 

The  Relations  of  the  Ideas  in  the  Point  of  Holiness 

These  are  the  relation  of  the  ideas  within  the  point  of  the 
Star  of  Holiness^  and  how  to  study  them  so  that  they  may  be 
established  in  consciousness_,  and  serve  to  reveal  the  law  of 
love. 

Holiness  is  the  sixth  stage  of  our  understanding  of  spiritual 
being  and  is  the  third  and  highest  within  the  realm  of  love. 
While  it  directly  follows  obedience  in  the  Star^  there  are  four 
intermediate  stages  of  development  between  them.  Neverthe- 
less Holiness  is  to  be  considered  here. 

Beginning  with  consecration  as  the  result  of  loveliness^  we 
are  led  thereby  to  a  higher  concept^  in  which  we  want  the  abso- 
lute truth  represented  by  science  as  the  love  of  principle.  Hav- 
ing consecration  in  science^  we  are  led  to  understand  reality 
as  the  truth  of  being;  hence  consecration  to  science  reveals 
reality. 

It  will  be  seen  that  these  ideas  are  the  first  ones  in  the  sec- 
ond points  of  the  Star  in  the  realms  of  love,  truth,  life;  and 
this  gives  us  the  order  of  progression  in  gaining  the  under- 
standing of  reality. 

Next,  taking  sanctity  as  the  love  of  holiness,  we  find  that  as 
we  are  sanctified  only  do  we  become  holy  and  gain  the  law 
of  love.  Then  only  are  we  ready  to  know  law  as  true  spiritual 
being.  Knowing  sanctity  and  law,  are  we  able  to  conceive  in- 
finity as  the  infinite  life-action  of  being. 

These  three  ideas  are  the  second  ones  in  the  second  points 
of  the  Star  in  each  realm  of  life,  love,  truth;  and  the  progres- 
sive thought  in  order  is  sanctity,  law,  infinity. 

Next  comes  purity  as  the  truth  of  holiness;  when  we  become 
pure  in  heart  we  become  orderly  in  thought,  and  having  gained 
pure  scientific  thought  and  perceived  that  it  is  orderly  then  can 
we  understand  presence  as  infinite  Mind  and  lose  our  concept  of 
presence  as  space  filled  with  material  substance  of  destructive 
force. 

Out  of  service  and  loveliness  come  a  concept  of  consecration 
as  the  life  of  holiness ;  out  of  loveliness  and  consecration  come 
sanctity  as  the  love  of  holiness ;  out  of  consecration   and   sane- 


Holiness  118 

tity  come  purity  as  the  truth  of  holiness.  This  gives  the  law 
of  Mind  in  its  perfect  way  of  revelation  to  its  children^  which 
is  that  we  go  from  one  thought  to  another  in  regular  form, 
according  to  the  Christ  way  or  meaning  of  life-action,  loVe- 
substance,  truth-perfection. 

In  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind's  meaning  we  find  that 
charity  and  patience  give  us  a  concept  of  dedication,  and  out 
of  patience  and  dedication  we  get  the  consciousness  of  venera,- 
tion,  and  out  of  veneration  and  dedication  comes  the  concept 
of  devoutness  which  is  the  love  of  consecration.  These  are 
the  three  ideas  which  reveal  consecration. 

Out  of  veneration  and  devoutness  we  receive  communion,  and 
out  of  devoutness  and  communion  comes  grace;  while  out  of 
communion  and  grace  we  understand  sacredness.  Thus  it  is  that 
the  three  ideas  of  communion,  grace  and  sacredness  give  us  the 
Christ  meaning  of  sanctity. 

From  grace  and  sacredness  do  we  get  cleanness,  and  from 
sacredness  and  cleanness  we  perceive  immaculateness ;  and  from 
cleanness  and  immaculateness  we  are  given  a  concept  of  virtue. 

It  must  not  be  overlooked  that  until  we  get  completely  around 
from  faith  to  comprehension  have  we  had  one  complete  con- 
cept of  Mind  in  perfection,  for  it  takes  the  entire  fourth  circle 
to  give  Mind's  perfect  meaning. 

We  find  that  in  the  realm  of  love,  that  purity  as  the  perfected 
state  or  truth  of  love  in  holiness  is  that  which  makes  us  to 
know  that  we  are  holy  and  seals  our  conscience  therein. 

Also  that  devoutness  as  the  possession  of  love  is  that  which 
seals  our  consciousness  of  consecration  and  makes  us  to  know 
that  we  are  consecrated  to  the  law. 

Sacredness  as  the  truth  of  love  seals  our  knowing  of  sanctity 
because  of  its  perfected  state,  beyond  which  mind  will  not  go. 

Virtue  as  the  life-action  of  purity  makes  us  to  know  purity 
because  of  its  action  in  demonstration  as  a  positive  fact  of  being 
pure. 


114  The  Christ-Law 

Bible    Records   as   Related   to   This   Head    of   the    Law    of 

Holiness. 

The   Second   Commandment. 

With  this  second  point  of  the  Star  is  associated  the  second 
commandment. 

Exodus  20:2-4.  (Because)  "I  am  the  Lord  thy  God  which 
have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egyptj,  out  of  the  house 
of  bondage."  Out  of  the  service  of  material  sensations^  into 
the  spiritual  understanding  of  the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ. 
Therefore : 

"Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or  any 
likeness  of  anything  that  is  in  heaven  above;  or  that  is  in  the 
earth  beneath,  or  that  is  in  the  water  under  the  earth;*' 

"Thou  shalt  not  bow  down  thyself  to  them  nor  serve  them. 

When  we  realize  our  rightful  state  of  being  in  Mind  and 
not  in  matter,  we  shall  not  substitute  images  of  matter  as  rep- 
resentative of  spiritual  being,  but  separate  them  one  from  the 
other,  for  one  will  have  power  as  somethingness  in  life-action; 
the  other  lack  power  as  nothingness  because  it  is  without  ac- 
tion. 

The  supreme  law  of  spiritual  power  in  Mind  will  satisfy  us, 
and  we  shall  not  bow  down  to  material  things  because  of  the 
higher  concepts  of  spiritual  presence  which  we  have  gained 
through   holiness. 

The   Second   Beatitude. 

Matthew  5:4.  "Blessed  are  they  that  mourn;  for  they  shall 
be   comforted." 

This  beatitude  is  associated  with  the  second  head  of  the 
law  of  holiness. 

We  certainly  find  it  hard  to  give  up  our  attachment  and  as- 
sociations to  material  things,  because  of  long-standing  habits 
and  the  seeming  necessity  of  these  things,  no  matter  if  we 
have  suffered  in  consequence  of  our  allegiance  to  them  and 
found  much  misery  through  their  use. 


Holiness  115 

This  lesson  of  sorrow  experience  is  righted  when  we  awake 
to  the  law  in  all  of  its  purity  and  strength  to  guide  us  aright 
into  channels  of  peace,  love  and  joy,  wherein  we  receive  com- 
fort in  their  expression. 

Holiness  as  a  law  of  love  is  a  very  great  blessing  when 
known. 

The  Lord^s  Prayer. 

The  second  section  of  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  in  association 
with  holiness  as  the  second  point  of  the  Star: 

"Hallowed   be   thy   name.*' 

We  see  how  Jesus  included  in  four  words  the  substance  of 
holiness  as  the  love  of  love,  for  to  love  love  is  to  hallow  love, 
and  exalt  it  above  everything  in  the  earth.  The  spiritual  sub- 
stance of  holiness  as  loveliness  is  the  foundation  of  the  whole 
law,  for  love  is  the  law. 

We  are  to  know  and  hallow  this  character  and  nature  of  love 
in  holiness. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  5:21  we  begin  to  hear  about  those  things  which 
oppose  holiness,  especially  those  things  which  blind  and  darken 
our  concept  of  the  love  of  love  or  loveliness. 

Jesus  recites  the  commandment  that  whosoever  shall  kill 
shall  be  in  danger  of  the  judgment;  and  by  judgment  is  meant 
that  good  is  already  chosen  above  evil.  Jesus  goes  further, 
for  he  says,  "Whosoever  is  angry  without  a  cause  (and  there 
is  no  cause  or  excuse  for  anger  at  any  time)  disobeys  Ihe  law 
of  holiness  as  loveliness;  and  whosoever  shall  criticise  his 
brother,  saying  Raca  (vain  fellow),  is  led  away  from  the  law; 
but  whosoever  shall  say  thou  fool  is  manifesting  hate  (the  direct 
opposite  of  love  in  holiness)  and  he  shall  be  in  danger  of  the 
fire  of  fear." 

Next  Jesus  sums  it  all  up  in  telling  us  just  what  to  do,  for 
he  says  that  when  we  bring  our  gift  to  the  altar,  our  gift 
of  an  ability  to  think  spiritual  thoughts  as  states  of  being, 
and  lay  them  upon  the  altar  of  holiness  as  its  perfect  law,  that 
if  we  sense  hate  from  any  source  we  are  to  go  and  harmonize 


116  The  Christ-Law 

this  discord  before  we  shall  be  acceptable  to  the  law  or  be  able 
to  understand  the  state  of  holiness. 

In  this  hate  concept^  no  matter  in  how  subtle  a  way  it  is 
manifest^  we  are  evil  in  it,  and  he  says  for  us  to  agree  with 
our  adversary  of  truth  while  we  are  in  the  way  of  it;  that  is, 
at  once,  and  to  do  it  quickly  before  it  reacts  upon  us  as  a 
mighty  power  to  prevail  and  punish  our  disobedience.  If  we 
do  not  we  shall  be  cast  into  sorrow  and  suffering  and  shall 
have  to  pay  the  full  penalty  of  our  sin. 

Herein  is  hate  shown  to  be  the  most  active  opponent  to  holi- 
ness and  that  holiness  as  the  state  of  loveliness  is  that  which  is 
referred  to. 

Next  comes  the  vice  of  sensuality,  against  which  Jesus  urges 
the  most  desperate  methods.  He  says  that  a  look  with  intent 
of  lust  is  sin  already.  He  says  that  it  is  profitable  for  us  to 
lose  an  eye  or  hand,  even  any  organ  which  leads  us  into  sin, 
rather  than  keep  it  to  our  destruction.  Adultery,  as  that  adul- 
teration of  anything  which  is  pure  and  perfect,  must  be  avoided 
at  all  costs.  Sensuality  is  the  second  sin  which  especially  op- 
poses  holiness. 

Again  we  are  told  not  to  swear  at  all;  that  is,  by  our  own 
authority  we  must  not  assume  the  power  which  belongs  to  the 
law  alone.  We  cannot  control  it,  but  must  understand  that 
it  is  by  its  great  mercy  that  we  live  in  it;  and  we  are  cau- 
tioned by  Jesus  to  see  to  it  that  we  walk  in  the  law  and  ac- 
knowledge its  perfect  way  with  an  aye,  aye,  to  its  ruling;  also 
that  we  deny  self  with  a  nay,  nay,  for  whatsoever  departs  from 
this  ruling  opposes  the  law  and  manifests  evil. 

These  four  references  are  intended  to  point  out  the  relation 
of  the  law  given  in  the  Star  to  that  given  in  the  sermon  on 
the  mount. 


CHAPTER   VII. 

HARMONY 

THK  Truth  of  Love. 

A  law  of  Completion  which  seals  our  knowing. 

To  understand  is  to  realize  truth's  perfection. 

To  know  is  to  have  the  presence  of  constructive  good  in  heart. 

To  understand  and  know  is  to  realize  and  accept  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  of  good  as  all  and  final. 

All  humanity  are  asking  this  question^  "What  does  it  mean 
to  know.^"  **In  what  way  can  I  obtain  a  soul  experience  of 
knowing,  and  know  that  I  know,  because  I  know  just  how  and 
why  I  know.^" 

This  subject  is  best  explained  by  giving  a  definite  illustra- 
tion, thus  calling  to  mind  already  existing  states  of  knowing, 
from  which  we  can  go  on  and  on  unto  the  full  attainment  of 
knowing  our  God-given  dominion  of  harmony,  and  therein  over- 
come all  sense  suggestion  of  imperfect  truth. 

In  explanation  let  us  take  an  example  of  knowing  so  simple 
and  so  universally  known  that  it  will  express  plainly  just  what 
to  know  means.  For  instance,  2  times  2  equals  4.  It  is  the 
fact  of  knowing  which  we  are  to  grasp  as  a  realization  of 
good  in  heart,  not  the  fact  of  its  being  4  alone,  but  the  whole 
intent  of  perfection  in  the  complete  idea  as  meaning  good. 

If  to  know  consists  in  discovering  and  accepting  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  of  good  in  all  things  as  ideas,  we  can  say  at 
once  that  we  have  found  the  good  which  is  manifest  in  the 
perfect   and   complete   idea   of   2   times   2    equals    4. 

It  is  a  realization  of  its  complete  perfection  and  permanent 
good  to  which  we  hold  fast;  for  this  good  as  God's  presence 
has  within  it  an  inherent  power  to  draw  us  to  it.      It  is  this 


118  The  Christ-Law 

consciousness   which  constitutes   our   soul  experience   of   perfect 
knowing. 

Our  fact  of  knowing  is  the  fact  of  finding  the  good  as  God 
within  our  own  heart's  conscience;  and  it  is  this  same  knowing 
which  Jesus  referred  to  when  he  said^  **Ye  shall  know  the 
truths  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free." 

In  this  light  of  knowing  let  us  find  more  light,  more  knowing, 
for  if  any  one  should  suggest  to  us  that  2  times  2  equals  7  we 
would  not  be  disturbed  thereby  nor  offended  thereat,  nor  would 
we  change  our  perfect  allegiance  to  the  4.  And  why?  Be- 
cause we  know  that  both  good  and  right  are  manifest  by  the 
4.  It  is  because  we  have  found  the  good  and  right  in  the  4 
and  understand  that  good's  one  meaning  is  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection,  and  that  there  is  no  good  anywhere 
to  be  found  but  this  one. 

In  past  experiences  we  have  persistently  labored  with  this 
idea,  and  through  the  life-action  of  thought  produced  the  good 
in  it,  and  then  continued  within  the  consciousness  of  this  good 
because  we  liked  it,  and  until  an  enduring  and  perfect  state 
appeared  to  us.  Right  there  we  knew,  because  of  the  power  of 
the  perfection  in  its  harmony.  Its  loyalty  to  us  was  revealed 
as  being  always  ready  to  manifest  its  particular  good  in  perfec- 
tion, in  which  we  may  have  absolute  confidence.  Because  of 
this  whenever  we  figure  up  our  accounts  we  do  not  use  5,  7  or 
9  in  the  place  of  4,  for  we  know  the  truth  to  be  4,  and  this  per- 
fect knowing  is  not  assailable  by  any  sense  suggestion. 

Herein  do  we  discover  that  because  we  know  the  4  are  we 
absolutely  protected  from  the  erroneous  suggestions  of  other 
numbers  which  come  to  us  from  outer  darkness  as  being  just 
as  good  or  even  better,  and  it  is  because  we  know,  that  these 
have  lost  their  power  over  us  to  deceive  and  confuse. 

Again,  because  we  know  2  times  2  equals  4  do  we  discover 
that  we  cannot  know  it  to  equal  anything  else;  and  therefore 
we  rest  in  peace  and  harmony.  This  fact  once  known  is  our 
power  of  freedom  in  knowing  and  it  is  our  absolute  protection 
from  sense  suggestions  of  error. 


Harmony  119 

Now  it  may  be  contended  that  the  complete  idea  of  2  times 
2  equals  4  is  an  idea  of  an  absolute  science^  and  because  of  its 
absoluteness  it  may  be  known  perfectly  and  without  doubt,  be- 
cause it  can  be  proven,  but  that  the  ideas  of  obedience  and 
harmony  cannot  be  so  known. 

Still  Jesus  said  that  they  could  be  so  known,  for  he  said: 
**Ye  shall  know  the  truth."  Again  he  commanded  us  to  be  per- 
fect even  as  our  Father  is  perfect,  which  cannot  be  in  any  less 
degree  than  perfection.  Now  when  these  ideas  are  presented 
to  you  aright  in  the  perfect  Christ-meaning  and  according  to 
one  absolute  law,  then  you  shall  know  also,  and  more,  you 
shall  know  that  you  know,  and  you  shall  know  just  why  and 
how,  because  they  can  be  proven,  and  when  known  will  make 
us  free  from  their  opposing  errors. 

There  is  little  difference  in  the  form  of  these  two  state- 
ments (2  times  2  equals  Jf,)  and  (The  life  of  love  equals  obedi- 
ence). Both  can  be  committed  and  learned  perfectly,  because 
complete  and  perfect,  and  when  known  through  practice  will 
produce  good  every  time. 

This  knowing  is  to  make  us  free  from  sense  suggestions 
which  oppose  the  one  perfect  state  of  being,  thinking  to 
change  it. 

In  this  same  way  are  we  to  learn  that  the  truth  of  love 
equals  harmony,  and  be  at  peace.  But  not  until  we  have  proven 
this  fact  will  we  get  the  result  in  knowing;  nevertheless  it  is 
there  as  a  power  of  Mind  and  can  establish  our  consciousness 
in  perfected  love,  which  is  harmony. 

These  ideas  and  their  Christ  meaning  are  reduced  to  table 
form,  which  are  just  as  perfect  as  the  tables  in  mathematics, 
and  just  as  useful  and  applicable  to  our  problems  in  living; 
and  are  all  portrayed  in  the  diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem 
and   may   be   learned  therein. 

When  this  ever-present  law  of  perfection  is  presented  to  us 
aright,  then  shall  we  arise  and  understand,  just  as  Jesus  said 
that  we  should,  for  if  any  one  should  say  to  us,  2  times  2,  and 
stop   there  we   should   not  be   satisfied,  because   of   a    sense   of 


120  The  Christ-Law 

incompleteness  and  imperfection.  And  until  we  arrive  at  the 
understanding  that  it  is  4,  thereby  getting  the  complete  idea 
in  truth,  we  are  helpless  and  under  the  influence  of  sense  sug- 
gestion, and  all  that  we  have  with  which  to  complete  this  idea 
of  2  times  2  is  that  great  mass  of  false  interpretations  which 
we  have  experienced  in  past  years  through  the  deceiving  and 
imperfect  senses.  This  sense  comes  to  our  rescue  with  any- 
thing that  it  first  picks  up  from  7  to  11,  and  offers  it  without 
thought  or  reason,  for  it  has  none  to  give.  But  when  we  gain 
the  understanding  that  it  equals  4,  through  having  proved  it, 
we  are  no  longer  in  doubt,  fear  or  confusion,  because  we  know. 

In  the  same  way,  we  have  been  told  to  live  in  harmony, 
when  we  did  not  know  what  harmony  was,  according  to  the 
Christ-Mind ;  for  harmony  is  the  truth  of  love,  true  loveli- 
ness. Because  we  did  not  know  that  harmony  was  loveliness 
perfected  we  were  at  the  mercy  of  sense  suggestion,  which 
immediately  assumes  to  supply  a  meaning;  and  when  through 
sense  appearance  we  behold  our  neighbor  casting  out  of  the 
home  his  son  for  the  sake  of  harmony  we  are  not  satisfied,  for 
there  is  no  harmony  manifested.  Not  until  the  true  love  of 
harmony  comes  into  the  hearts  of  both  father  and  son,  perfect- 
ing their  loveliness,  will  any  harmony  appear,  for  harmony  is 
the  truth  of  love.  And  in  the  day  that  they  gain  this  concept 
will  both  become  free  from  their  error. 

Further  Facts  of  Knowing. 

Obedience  as  the  life-action  of  love,  because  of  its  active 
intent,  is  bound  to  produce  something  as  the  substance  of  real- 
ized good  within  our  hearts.  This  constitutes  our  loveliness 
as  holiness  in  us ;  we  abide  within  this  love  substance  of  holiness 
because  we  discover  an  irresistible  attraction  therein  as  the 
power  of  good.  When  we  abide  therein  and  make  this  place 
of  good  our  one  place  of  habitation,  we  find  that  the  active 
life  therein  continually  produces  one  state  of  good,  which  is 
our  realized  love.  And  that  it  is  the  same  one  perfect  thing  of 
perfection  which  is  to  become  our  harmony,  our  true  and  per- 
fected state  of  love. 


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In  this  state  of  perfection  is  our  knowing  to  be  completed, 
for  it  is  a  realization  of  complete  perfection  alone  which  truly 
satisfies,  and  is  final  from  the  testimony  of  the  Spirit  of  truth. 

Therefore  all  ideas  in  Mind  symbolizing  love*s  substance  as 
constructive  good  are  fulfilled  and  our  knowing  sealed  in  con- 
sciousness because  of  the  presence  of  truth's  perfection;  that 
is,  all  love  as  constructive  good  becomes  all  powerful  when  per- 
ceived as  perfection. 

Now,  just  how  may  I  learn  to  love  and  live  in  perfection? 

We  begin  with  life  as  the  action  of  Mind;  in  other  words, 
we  begin  by  thinking  right  thoughts  only — that  is,  the  declara- 
tion of  a  heart's  desire  with  intent  to  live  a  state  of  true  being, 
according  to  the  Christ-law  of  life-love-truth-meaning  of  good. 

At  all  times  God  speaks  to  the  children  of  Israel  and  says 
unto  them:  "Walk  before  Me  and  be  ye  perfect.'*  Jesus  re- 
peated it,  for  he  said:  ''Be  ye  therefore  perfect,  even  as  your 
Father  which  is  in  heaven  is  perfect." 

To  walk  before  our  Father  and  be  perfect  means  to  express 
His  perfect  thoughts  as  ideas  or  states  of  spiritual  being,  and 
to  express  their  spiritual  meaning  of  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection  only. 

We  shall  then  begin  to  live  with  good  in  the  temple  of  good, 
and  to  learn  of  a  sure  and  immortal  state  of  perfect  being, 
and  as  we  know  shall  we  go  no  more  out. 

As  we  declare  the  good  with  the  intent  to  be  good  and  be- 
come obedient  to  the  law  of  supreme  perfection  shall  we  be 
led  to  know  another  idea  in  close  touch  with  the  one  which  we 
have  been  declaring.  This  is  the  scientific  way  to  learn  to  love 
and  live  in  perfection^  for  we  are  led  from  one  idea  to  another, 
according  to  a  perfect  law  of  Mind. 

When  we  learn  to  pray  without  ceasing,  that  is,  to  declare 
these  ideas  systematically  and  commit  them  to  mind,  realizing 
their  life-love-truth-meaning  as  all  power,  it  will  be  a  convinc- 
ing state  of  being  which  compels  us  to  know.  These  are  the 
attraction  of  good,  the  unassailable  power  of  truth  perfection 
and  the  demonstrable  certainty  of  life's  action. 


122  The  Christ-Law 

Then  shall  we  be  led  into  knowing  just  how  to  love  and  live 
in  perfection^  through  Mind  power. 

When  we  begin  to  do — that  is^  to  live  these  Christ  ideas  in 
mind  as  desires  or  intentions  of  heart — we  become  kindly  and 
gentle  at  all  times  and  places^  and  under  all  conditions,  and 
learn  to  love  our  neighbor  as  ourselves,  because  we  see  all 
things  to  be  within  the  law.  When  we  do  a  kindness  to  any- 
one we  must  not  forget  to  rejoice  with  them,  for  it  is  our  com- 
mand; indeed,  it  is  our  rightful  service,  and,  more,  it  is  our 
privilege  and  way  to  learn  how  to  love  and  live  in  perfection, 
and  as  we  persist  in  our  rejoicing  shall  we  learn  more  and 
more  that  love  is   good. 

We  shall  not  have  to  practice  long  before  we  discover  the 
way  and  see  the  result  of  our  efforts,  for  every  right  idea  once 
learned  is  a  sure  barrier  against  some  evil  suggestion  which 
is  to  free  us  forever^  because  we  know,  and  know  how  and  why 
we  know,  that  the  good  is  all  and  final. 

How  can  I  learn  to  express  Harmony  and  abide  under  its 
influence  and  government  and  through  it  be  made  free  from 
fury   and  confusion? 

Without  the  perfecting  experience  of  the  two  preceding 
heads  of  the  law  of  obedience  and  holiness,  we  cannot  know 
or  express  harmony  at  will  through  a  dominion  of  thought  in 
Mind.  But  having  attained  unto  a  realization  of  loving  love- 
liness, and  being  able  to  express  it  as  a  live,  active  soul  ex- 
perience within,  we  are  sanctified  thereby  and  purified  therein; 
bringing  to  pass  an  understanding  consciousness  of  peace  as 
the  love  of  harmony.     This  is  the  beginning  of  our  knowing. 

When  our  heart's  desire  goes  out  to  the  things  of  harmony 
in  love,  and  we  really  seek  with  all  our  might  to  find  it,  we 
get  a  clear,  strong  perception  of  the  ever-present  infinite  pres- 
ence of  the  law  of  constructive  good.  Following  this  comes 
to  us  a  realization  of  that  true  state  of  the  law  of  perfect  trust 
because  of  perceived  spiritual  perfection. 

That  active  state  of  peaceful  thought  in  expression  of  good 
is  the  power  of  the  law  which  we  can  surely  trust.  It  reveals 
a  state  of  quietude,  and  is  an  acknowledged  state  of  the  pres- 


Harmony  123 

ence  of  the  law,  the  Spirit  of  reality  and  power.     Herein  have 
we  found  good  in  the  secret  place  of  knowing. 

Peace  as  the  love  substance  of  harmony  when  realized  as  a 
soul  experience  of  substantial  good  leads  us  into  unity  and  uni- 
son with  perfect  good;  the  oneness,  union  and  agreement  of 
perfection.  All  of  which  we  can  learn  to  express  through 
constantly   declaring   them. 

As  a  final  state  of  understanding  comes  freedom  as  the  life- 
action  of  harmony,  the  one  active  state  which  seals  our  know- 
ing within  the  realm  of  truth  perfection.  For  freedom  as  lib- 
erty from  confusion  and  the  soul's  rejoicing  because  of  the 
presence  of  health  in  perfect  action  of  body  and  mind  is  the 
proof  of  harmonious  being,  the  work  of  which  is  done  by  the 
active  Mind  in  manifesting  its  law  of  prevailing  good. 

Again,  just  how  do  we  get  this  understanding  consciousness 
of  the  Christ-law  of  perfection,  and  know?  And  through  know- 
ing just  how  and  why  we  know,  be  made  free  from  confusion.^ 
How  can  we  attain  this  scientific  law  and  demonstrate  it  with 
certainty  through  the  power  of  mind.^* 

First,  we  must  recognize  that  harmony  is  the  perfected  and 
finished  state  of  loveliness,  and  that  if  perfected  in  us  it  must 
have  required  the  diligent  use  of  our  God-given  gift  of  mind. 
It  is  to  be  an  ability  to  think  and  to  declare  with  the  soul  a 
realization  of  progressive  steps  or  thoughts  in  the  understand- 
ing of  Mind's  perfect  being;  which  is  to  be  a  developed  state  of 
spiritual  expression  through  a  perfect  method  of  mental  reve- 
lation. 

Let  us  begin  with  the  acknowledgement  of  the  presence  of 
a  supreme  law  of  perfection.  When  this  is  realized  in  heart 
we  find  present  with  it  an  idea  called  faith  or  trust,  which  is  a 
spiritual  sense  of  our  connection  with  the  law.  Our  perfect 
faith  in  this  law  comes  from  its  loyalty  to  us,  for  our  loyalty 
to  it  must  be  the  image  of  its  loyalty  to  us,  hence  our  perfect 
faith.  But  our  loyalty  to  have  being  must  be  active  and  take 
on  the  form  of  service  as  a  soul's  expression  of  perfect 
allegiance  to  the  law.     Out  of  this  state  of  consciousness  will 


124  The  Christ-Law 

come  another^  which  will  express  love  in  perfection^  as  loveli- 
ness the  true  state  of  obedience. 

These  states  of  being  have  been  a  progressive  growth  or  ex- 
pression in  consciousness  and  constitute  our  living  action  within 
Mind. 

Beginning  again  with  this  learned  expression  of  obedience  in 
the  first  point  of  the  Star^  we  find  that  in  the  loveliness  ex- 
pressed have  we  consecrated  ourselves  to  love  as  holiness ;  and 
why.^  Because  we  reached  the  state  of  love  in  our  loyalty. 
This  thought  of  loveliness  held  fast  to  and  practiced  in  heart 
honestly  will  sanctify  us,  thereby  revealing  the  substance  of 
holiness.  We  must  practice  this  state  of  consciousness  until 
sanctity  becomes  a  reality  within  our  hearts,  and  it  is  possible 
because  of  our  dominion  of  mind  as  an  ability  to  produce  spir- 
itual states  of  perfect  being.  This  indisputable  power  of  the 
thinking  soul  has  the  ability  to  produce  or  reveal  its  own  being 
in  perfection  through  mental  action. 

Therefore  when  we  have  established  a  state  of  realized  sanc- 
tity within  our  conscious  being  we  shall  find  purity  there  also; 
for  the  purifying  influence  of  Spirit  at  work  cannot  help  but 
express   itself  in  the  law. 

We  will  have  prepared  ourselves  to  experience  a  state  of 
peacefulness  as  the  beginning  of  harmony;  for  our  thought  in 
love  has  reached  its  third  state  and  is  being  perfected.  Our 
trust  and  faith  is  much  strengthened,  for  we  now  have  them 
firmly  established  and  rest  in  sweet  repose  and  quiet. 

We  know  the  power  of  mind  to  be  able  to  do  these  things 
and  our  ability  through  its  use  to  establish  a  state  of  perfect 
being   in   the   soul. 

Then  comes  rejoicing  because  of  the  power  of  mind's  action 
to  live  constructive  good  and  reproduce  God's  thoughts  in  per- 
fection as  states  of  being  in  mind.  This  reveals  unto  us  our 
way  of  freedom,  and  with  practice  we  come  into  a  realization 
of  our  authority  and  dominion  over  all  sense  testimony  which 
opposes  the  perfect  law  of  Mind. 

As  a  last  state  of  realization  within  the  realm  of  love  we 
find  freedom,  that  perfect  consciousness  of  harmony  which  seals 


Harmony 


125 


our  knowings  because  of  being  active  in  doing — that  is,  in  liv- 
ing a  state  of  being  free.  When  we  have  accomplished  this 
route  of  mental  action  we  have  gained  a  concept  of  the  ideas 
of  love  which  are  our  rightful  inheritance  and  possession,  after 
which  we  come  into  a  state  of  health  and  peace,  through  the 
joy  within  mind  and  body. 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Law  of  Harmony. 


Harmony 
Discord 


Peace 
Offense 


!  Unity 
Division 


Freedom 
Bondage 


C  Trust 
•<  Quietude 
(  Amity 

( Oneness 
■j  Union 
(Agreement 

(  Liberty 
<  Rejoicing 
(  Health 


Suspicion 
Agitation 
Animosity 

Divorce 
Schism 
Contradiction 

Obligation 

Sorrow 

Disease 


HARMONY,  AS  the   Truth   of  Love,  versus  DISCORD,  as 
A  False  Concept. 

Discord  is  mortal  confusion  because  of  not  understanding 
harmony.  It  comes  from  false  imagination^  apart  from  the 
law  of  orderliness.  When  we  abide  within  the  spiritual  law 
of  perfect  thoughts  which  are  states  of  true  consciousness  we 
escape  the  confusion  of  discord.  Discord  is  a  falsehood,  for 
there  is  no  discord  in  perfect  principle,  and  principle  contains 
all  that  there  is  about  anything.  Discord  is  evil  imagination, 
be  it  of  mathematics,  music,  or  thoughts  as  states  of  spiritual 
being;  any  evil  imagination  about  anything  whatsoever  outside 
the  law  of  truth  has  no  reality  or  being  and  hence  is  discordant 
in  thought  action. 

Discord  as  a  mortal  concept  is  one  of  wrong  and  should  re- 
veal the   fact  of  unlawful  use  of  our  dominion   of  thought   ac- 


126  The  Christ-Law 

tion^  from  which  we  must  at  once  retrace  our  way  into  lawful 
thoughts  within  the  perfect  ideas  of  good  and  harmony. 

Discord  is  a  false  mortal  interpretation  through  the  testi- 
mony of  sense  about  some  condition  of  material  appearance;  it 
is  a  testimony  of  confusion  and  in  this  way  do  we  sense  discord 
— none  of  the  sense  testimony  is  apart  from  discord^  and  not 
until  we  come  to  know  the  law  and  abide  therein  will  discord 
disappear. 

PEACE,   THE   Love    of    Harmony,   versus   OFFENSE,   as   a 
Hate   Concept. 

Offense  is  the  sting  of  self  consciousness,  because  it  is  an 
unlawful  state  of  being  apart  from  God  as  the  law  of  good. 
When  we  get  away  from  self  as  a  power  and  right  and  know 
the  law  in  which  we  have  being  then  we  are  released  from  this 
state  of  selfishness  called  offense. 

The  offensive  self  is  no  longer  believed  to  be  something 
worthy  of  defense,  but  is  known  as  an  unlawful  false  appear- 
ance through  the  action  of  sense-mind  instead  of  lawful  mind. 
Offense  is  certainly  no  part  of  the  perfect  law  of  peace,  and 
gives  us  no  good  state  of  being  in  which  is  life  action.  There- 
fore we  have  no  right  to  offense,  neither  to  be  offensive  to 
others^  for  peace  alone  will  bring  us  into  touch  with  heaven. 

UNITY,  THE  Truth  of  Harmony,  versus  DIVISION,  as  a 
False  Concept 

Division  is  destruction;  for  unity  within  the  law  alone  is 
strength.  No  number  of  evil,  aggressive,  selfish  beliefs  out- 
side of  the  law  of  good  have  any  strength  at  all,  for  ten  thou- 
sand times  nothing  is  no  more  than  nothing.  Right  ideas  are 
united  into  one  vast  sea  of  intelligence,  filling  all  space  as  a 
law  of  presence,  which  is  known  to  us  and  conceived  by  us  as  a 
power  of  Spirit  in  the  right  of  law.  This  is  not  divided  against 
itself,  neither  can  the  mortal  sense  of  division  assail  it  in  an 
effort  to  gain  recognition.  Unity  is  the  power  and  might  of 
spirit  and  is  ours  also  to  have. 


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FREEDOM,  THE  Life  of  Harmony,  versus  BONDAGE  as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Bondage  is  the  false  concept  of  impotent  might,  as  if  strength 
could  be  weakness.  When  we  abide  within  the  mortal  thought 
or  sense-mind  we  discover  its  limitations  and  impotence;  that  is 
when  we  use  our  God- given  action  of  life  in  mind  upon  the 
impotent  suggestions  of  sensations,  therein  we  are  held  in  bond- 
age to  mortality.  But  when  we  arise  into  the  expression  of 
the  Christ-law  then  we  find  ourselves  free. 

All  mortal  sensations  are  bondage  and  impotent,  while  all 
spiritual  thoughts  within  the  law  are  freedom  and  peace.  To 
recognize  mortal  laws  is  bondage  and  fear,  but  to  understand 
spiritual  law  is   freedom. 

TRUST,    THE    Life    of    Peace,    versus    SUSPICION,    as    a 
Death  Concept. 

Suspicion  seems  to  be  a  thought,  but  is  not  a  thought,  for 
nothingness  is  that  which  it  is  intended  to  express,  and  we  all 
know  that  nothingness  cannot  be  thought,  known  or  expressed. 

It  suggests  the  absence  of  truth  as  nothing,  without  sub- 
stance or  being;  therefore  it  is  a  false  thought  or  belief,  as  an 
inaction  of  mind. 

Suspicion  is  our  concept  of  mortality,  and  we  well  know 
that  we  cannot  trust  it  because  we  cannot  think  it  as  some- 
thing, and  it  being  unthinkable  cannot  be  known.  We  find 
that  we  can  trust  the  perfect  ideas  of  the  law,  for  they  ex- 
press right  states  of  being  which  can  be  thought,  known  and 
understood. 

QUIETUDE,  the  Love  of  Peace,  versus  AGITATION,  as  a 
Hate   Concept. 

Agitation  is  a  false  concept  through  material  sensations. 
We  experience  these  things  and  fear  them  because  we  do  not 
understand  them.  This  fear  is  the  false  interpretation  which 
destroys  our  quietude. 


128  The  Christ-Law 

We  must  learn  to  give  the  one  interpretation  of  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  to  things  then  we  shall  not  be  agitated. 

When  we  learn  of  the  quietude  and  certainty  of  right  ex- 
pression in  the  law^  our  falsity  in  mind  will  be  eliminated^ 
which  will  be  greatly  to  our  profit,  for  agitation  hides  our 
concept  of  quietude. 

AMITY,  THE   Truth   of   Peace,   verses  ANIMOSITY,   as   a 
False  Concept. 

Animosity  is  resistance  because  of  offense,  and  both  of  them 
are  illegal  and  useless  because  outlawed  as  mortal  fury.  They 
cannot  be  thought,  neither  known  as  states  of  being,  for  they 
are  false  in  intent  and  nature. 

Animosity  acts  as  a  blind  to  us  and  keeps  us  from  seeing  the 
friendship  which  otherwise  might  exist  greatly  to  the  good  of 
everyone.  The  good  is  ever  in  our  midst,  if  we  will  but  open 
our  eyes  and  see  it  instead  of  the  fury  of  falsity,  hate  and 
death. 

Animosity  is  a  common  mistake  and  is  caused  by  envy,  self- 
ishness and  common  meanness  or  fear  of  the  good;  we  should 
arise  above  this  error. 

ONENESS,   THE    Love    of    Unity,   versus    DIVORCE,    as   a 
Hate    Concept. 

Divorce  is  a  mortal  state  of  fear,  which  represents  the  car- 
nal mind  in  its  seeming  action  of  right  as  self-justification. 
It  is  death  in  opposition  to  unity,  and  a  division  in  which  there 
is  no  strength,  neither  health  nor  action  of  life.  It  is  an  imag- 
inary state  of  temporal  being  which  seems  good  and  right, 
but  it  is  opposed  to  unity  and  therefore  cannot  be  according 
to  the  law.  It  manifests  no  love,  and  we  are  commanded  to 
walk  in  the  Law. 

Divorce  is  false  in  its  intent  and  purpose,  and  has  no  mean- 
ing of  good  except  the  mortal  interpretation,  which  is  "anything 
that  pleases  me." 


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UNION^    THE    Truth    of    Unity,    versus    SCHISM,    as    a 
False  Concept. 

Schism  is  a  false  mortal  concept  of  disunion.  It  is  the  result 
of  intrusions  of  falsity  into  our  thoughts  which  make  laws 
in  opposition  to  the  one  righteous  law.  Mortals  establish  a 
church  and  think  to  make  it  stand  because  of  dominating  and 
repressive  church  laws,  which  repressiveness  make  the  hearts 
of  its  members  to  fear  the  church  power,  and  thereby  hide 
love  from  them.  A  member  who  obeys  the  absolute  Christ-law 
of  love  is  accused  of  schism  and  cast  out  from  the  political 
organization  as  a  church,  in  which  the  church  does  not  ex- 
press love  and  is  itself  a  schism  of  the  Christ-law,  because  of 
its    mortal   imaginations    as    repressive   laws. 

AGREEMENT,    the     Life     of     Unity,    versus     CONTRA- 
DICTION,   AS    A    Death    Concept. 

Contradiction  is  giving  to  opposition  the  force  of  mortal  ac- 
tion, and  therein  judging  from  a  mortal  standpoint  of  self. 
We  do  not  have  to  contradict  error  when  we  learn  of  its  falsity, 
for  it  is  already  put  down  and  out  forever.  Our  Master  said 
that  he  had  overcome  this  falsity  and  it  was  done  for  our 
sakes,  therefore  we  are  commanded  to  walk  in  the  law. 

We  do  not  have  to  call  anyone  a  liar,  for  if  he  lies  he  is 
one  without  our  calling  him  one,  and  if  he  is  not  our  calling 
him  one  won't  make  him  a  liar.  When  we  learn  to  abide  in 
the  law  we  lose  the  habit  of  looking  for  trouble  and  cease  to 
contradict  our  neighbor  who  differs  with  us. 

LIBERTY,  THE  Truth  of  Freedom,  versus  OBLIGATION, 
AS  A  False  Concept 

Obligation  is  a  false  sense  of  fear  because  we  think  that 
we  are  in  bondage  to  some  person  through  being  indebted  to 
them.  We  take  on  the  sense  of  servitude,  and,  forgetting  the 
freedom  of  the  Christ-law,  we  abide  in  mortal  fear  of  what 
men    shall    do    unto    us. 

We  cannot  understand  the  mortal  sense  of  obligation,  for  it 
is  fear,  and  is  intended  to  blind  us  from  a  sense  of  love.     But 


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when  our  thought  is  directed  to  the  Saviour^  our  sense  of 
obligation  has  a  very  different  interpretation;  it  is  not  one  of 
fear  because  of  a  possible  injustice  from  mortal  greedy  but 
one  of  trust  and  love  because  of  knowing  that  it  is  absolutely 
just  and  right  and  true. 

REJOICING^    THE     Life     of     Freedom,    versus     SORROW, 
AS    A    Death    Concept. 

Sorrow  is  a  vicious,  blinding  concept  of  mortality  which 
hides  the  Christ-love  from  our  hearts  and  leaves  us  in  the 
dark  without  hope  or  peace.  We  think  that  we  have  a  right  to 
sorrow,  and  evil  tells  us  that  it  is  wicked  not  to  sorrow.  But 
sorrow  is  not  found  within  the  law  of  the  perfect  Christ  right- 
eousness, and  we  are  commanded  to  walk  in  it  alone. 

We  have  no  more  right  to  express  sorrow  than  we  have  to 
express  any  other  death  thought  which  kills  our  concept  of  love, 
hence  we  must  get  away  from  these  evil  suggestions  which 
strive  to  drag  us  down  into  death  and  hell. 

Sorrow  is  the  result  of  a  past  hypocritical  teaching  which 
is  ignorant  in  worldliness,  not  knowing  the  Christlikeness  of 
love. 

HEALTH,  THE   Love   of   Freedom,   versus   DISEASE,   as   a 
Hate    Concept. 

Disease  is  a  falsity  which  we  have  no  right  to  possess,  and 
would  not  possess  if  we  did  not  think  about  it  as  we  do  about 
sorrow,  which  is  that  we  have  a  right  to  disease,  also  to  suffer 
because  it  is  good  for  us.  That  is,  that  out  of  the  hell  and 
fury  of  disease  come  good  for  our  souls.  If  this  is  so,  about 
where  does  God  and  His  goodness  come  in?  Our  Master  said 
that  we  could  not  pick  any  good  fruit  from  an  evil  tree.  We 
must  begin  to  follow  the  Christ-law  in  its  purity  and  learn  of 
the  good  therein,  that  we  may  overcome  the  evil  sense  testi- 
mony and  its  lie  of  disease  as   right  and  just. 

Having  expelled  from  consciousness  the  hold  which  evil 
thoughts  had  over  us  because  of  our  fear  of  material  conditions. 


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then  are  we  ready  to  look  into  the  fact  of  the  Christ's  goodness, 
as  all  which  we  can  have  and  which  is  worthy  of  use.  These 
right  ideas  as  states  of  spiritual  consciousness  which  are  repre- 
sented in  the  following  tables  are  not,  however,  readily  under- 
stood until  we  have  given  up  our  fear  of  anything  and  of  every- 
thing; in  fact,  given  up  a  concept  of  fear,  for  they  are  all  of 
love  and  love  alone. 

These  tables  are  intended  to  be  studied  with  the  intent  of 
seeing  the  Christ  meaning  in  them  only,  which  is  the  life,  love, 
truth  of  them.  Their  action  in  all  of  its  living  immutability 
is  the  one  substantial  ever-present  now  of  perfect  being,  uncon- 
taminated  with  any  death,  hate  or  false  concepts. 

The  First  Table  is  as  Follows: 

The    truth-perfection    of    substantial    love    equals    life's    active 
Harmony. 

Study  this  table  until  you  can  perceive  the  Christ  meaning 
of  this  state  of  being  in  Harmony,  for  this  is  a  definition  of 
harmony,  giving  its  truth,  love  and  life  meaning.  This  mean- 
ing is  that  in  which  we  are  commanded  to  walk  that  we  may 
learn  to  know  the  Christ  in  all  phases  of  Mind-action-sub- 
stance-perfection, and  in  this  alone. 

The  Second  Table. 

The    love-substance    of    perfect    Harmony    equals    life's    active 
Peace. 

This  is  a  definition  of  peace,  the  one  Christ  definition  or  its 
meaning  in  love,  truth  and  life.  Peace  is  the  love  of  harmony, 
and  when  we  love  harmony  we  will  find  that  it  represents  peace. 

The  work  with  these  tables  will  teach  us  to  abide  in  the  law 
and  will  eliminate  the  habit  of  including  evil  as  a  seeming  nec- 
essity in  presence,  from  which  we  are  so  earnestly  striving  to 
eliminate  the  erroneous  concepts  which  cause  us  to  fear. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with 
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132  The  Christ-Law 

The  Tables  in  the  Third  Point  of  the  Star  of  Harmony. 

TABLE   one. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Love  equals  life*s  active 
Harmony. 

TABLE     TWO. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Harmony  equals  life's  active 
Peace. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Harmony  equals  truth's  per- 
fect Unity. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Harmony  equals  love's  substantial 
Freedom. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Harmony,  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Peace,  Unity,  Freedom.  These  three  ideas  represent  Har- 
mony. 

TABLE      three. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Peace  equals  truth's  perfect 
Trust. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Peace  equals  love's  substan- 
tial   Quietude. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Peace  equals  life's  active 
Amity. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Peace,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Trust,  Quietude,  Amity.     These  three  ideas  represent  Peace. 

TABLE     FOUR. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Unity  equals  life's  active  One- 
ness. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Unity  equals  truth's  perfect 
Union. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Unity  equals  love's  substantial 
Agreement. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Unity,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Oneness,  Union,  Agreement.  These  three  ideas  represent  Unity. 


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TABLE    FIVE. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Freedom  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Liberty. 

The  life-action  of  active  Freedom  equals  life's  active  Re- 
joicing. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Freedom  equals  truth's  perfect 
Health. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Freedom^  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Liberty,  Rejoicing,  Health.  These  three  ideas  represent  Free- 
dom. 

The  preceding  tables  represent  the  Christ-Mind  in  its  com- 
pleteness and  perfection,  and  are  given  in  such  a  form  that  we 
can  know  how  and  why  we  know  that  the  Testimony  of  Spirit 
to  our  spirit  is  true. 

The  object  of  these  tables  is  to  establish  certain  right  states 
of  realization  in  consciousness  which  are  to  be  our  guide  in  life 
action. 

Through  them  are  we  to  become  acquainted  with  the  Christ- 
law  of  perfection  and  learn  how  to  use  these  states  of  true 
being  in  the  progress  of  experiences  here  in  the  world. 

When  we  learn  to  use  them  we  will  ask  of  evil  to  give  an 
account  of  itself  according  to  reality  in  the  law,  which  it  can 
not  do  because  evil  is  but  a  suggestion,  nothing  more,  and  has 
no  being  or  substances  with  which  to  answer,  and  when  we 
discover   this    fact   we   shall  be    free   from   fear. 

The  Relation  of  the  Ideas  in  the  Point  of  Harmony 

Next  come  the  relation  of  the  ideas  of  this  point  as  states 
of  spiritual  consciousness,  for  we  must  learn  just  how  to  study 
and  use  them  in  our  living  and  prevailing  against  errors. 

Harmony  is  the  eighth  stage  of  spiritual  development  and 
perception,  and  is  next  to  the  last  and  final  step  of  understand- 
ing  the   power   of    Spirit. 

While  it  follows  directly  beyond  holiness,  nevertheless  there 
is   one   stage   of  development  between  them. 

Beginning  with  peace  as  a  result  of  being  pure  in  heart, 
we  are  led  into  a  higher  state  of  understanding  substance  in 
infallibility    as    an   unchangeable   law   of   good.      Having   these 


134  The  Christ-Law 

two  established  we  are  able  to  receive  demonstration^  and  know 
just  what  it  is  and  how  to  demonstrate  our  problems. 

It  will  be  seen  that  these  are  the  first  ones  in  the  third, 
sixth  and  ninth  points  of  the  Star^  and  are  the  related  ideas 
in  the  realms  of  love,  truth,  life.  They  give  the  order  of  per- 
ception in  demonstration,  which  is  peace,  infallibility,  demon- 
stration. 

Next,  taking  unity  as  the  truth  of  harmony,  we  find  that 
as  we  gain  a  consciousness  of  our  oneness  with  the  law  are  we 
able  to  realize  what  control  means  and  possess  it  in  fact.  We 
become  sagacious  in  all  of  our  acts,  because  it  is  not  we  our- 
selves who  does  the  works,  but  the  power  of  the  law. 

It  will  be  seen  that  these  ideas  are  the  second  ones  in  the 
third  point  of  the  Star  in  each  of  the  realms  of  love,  truth,  life, 
and  that  they  express  the  order  of  growth  or  progress  of  spir- 
itual thought  to  be  unity,  control,  sagacity,  in  our  concept  of 
sagacity. 

Next  taking  freedom  as  the  life  of  Harmony,  when  we  be- 
come free  from  mortal  bondage  and  learn  that  mortal  imagina- 
tion is  not  worthy  of  our  allegiance,  then  we  are  able  to  under- 
stand the  meaning  of  power,  by  abiding  in  the  law,  which  is 
power;  and  then  we  come  into  the  possession  of  real  knowl- 
edge, which  is  true  being. 

These  are  the  third  parts  of  the  third  point  of  the  Star  in 
each  realm  of  life,  love,  truth,  and  they  express  the  order  of 
growth  in  understanding  knowledge  to  be  freedom,  power, 
knowledge. 

Out  of  the  presence  of  purity  and  sanctity  is  peace  revealed; 
and  from  the  concept  of  purity  and  peace  do  we  receive  unity; 
from  peace  and  unity  we  come  into  freedom.  This  reveals  the 
ever-present  power  of  mind  to  make  us  know  through  being 
free,  for  freedom  seals  our  knowing  of  Harmony. 

Out  of  immaculateness  and  virtue  comes  an  understanding 
of  trust;  and  from  virtue  and  trust  is  quietude  revealed;  from 
quietude  and  trust  comes  the  concept  of  amity;  and  it  is  the 
thought  of  amity  which  seals  our  knowing  and  compels  us  to 
realize  that  we  are  peaceful. 


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From  quietude  and  amity  comes  the  concept  of  oneness,  and 
from  amity  and  oneness  is  union  revealed,  and  then  from  one- 
ness and  union  comes  agreement,  which  seals  our  knowing  of 
unity. 

From  union  and  agreement  comes  liberty,  and  from  agree- 
ment and  liberty  is  rejoicing  made  manifest,  while  from  re- 
joicing and  liberty  comes  a  concept  of  health;  and  it  is  health 
which  makes  us  know  freedom. 

This  completes  the  ideas  of  the  realm  of  love  as  far  as  the 
fourth  development  of  Mind's  meaning,  but  we  need  not  stop 
here^  for  the  way  is  open  to  all  to  proceed  as  far  as  it  is  with- 
in  their   power   to   go. 

These  ideas  of  the  fourth  development  give  a  greater  expan- 
sion of  thought  than  the  ideas  of  the  third  revelation,  and  so 
it  goes  on  from  one  circle  to  another  in  an  ever-increasing  num- 
ber of  ideas  of  Mind's  meaning,  which  gives  us  an  undefiled 
language  of  real  purity  and  cleanness. 

Bible    Records   as   Related   to   the    Law    of   Harmony. 
The  Third  Commandment. 

Under  the  third  head  of  the  law  is  associated  the  third  com- 
mandment. 

Exodus  20:2,  7.  (Because)  "I  am  the  Lord  thy  God  which 
have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the  house 
of  bondage."  Out  of  the  mortality  of  the  children  of  Jacob, 
into  a  concept  of  the  spiritual  mentalities  of  the  children  of 
Israel.      Therefore : 

"Thou  shalt  not  take  the  name  of  the  Lord  thy  God  in 
v^ain,     ^     ^     * 

To  take  the  name  of  the  Lord  is  to  realize  His  name  and 
know  it  as  a  soul  experience  of  His  character  and  nature,  which 
is  expressed  in  the  law  of  harmony  as  the  truth  of  love. 

To  understand  in  consciousness  the  perfect  authority  of  good 

and   realize    its    unity   with   our   being   is    certainly    not   a   vain 

knowing    on    our    part,    for    a    thorough    understanding    of    the 

^^  infinite  power  of  good  with  an  ability  to  express  it  is  our  one 

^B  way  to  find  peace,  love  and  j  oy . 

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136  The  Christ-Law 

This  consciousness  of  harmony  as  the  expression  of  peace^ 
unity  and  freedom  meets  the  requirements  of  the  third  com- 
mandment^ because  they  are  the  intended  meaning  of  God  as  a 
name^  a  law  of  perfect  love;  they  certainly  convince^  satisfy 
and  make  us  to  know  God's  law  of  rights  which  is  not  a  vain 
thing  to  have^  but  a  very  great  blessing. 

The  Third  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5 :5  we  read  the  third  beatitude^  which  is  applicable 
to  this  third  head  of  the  law  in  Harmony: 

"Blessed  are  the  meek;  for  they  shall  inherit  the  earth.*' 

Surely  the  materially  ambitious  and  those  who  push  them- 
selves forward  in  the  possession  of  worldly  things  of  matter 
meet  with  a  great  deal  of  opposition  and  strife  from  haters 
as  the  expression  of  the  animal-sense-mind,  and  seldom  gain 
anything  aside  from  confusion  and  the  fury  of  material  wealth. 
But  a  great  blessing  comes  to  those  who  are  able  to  humble 
this  animal-self  and  exalt  the  law  of  the  perfect  Christ  in  all 
ways  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection,  for  in  it 
they  shall  see  clearly  to  gain  the  spiritual  things  of  wisdom 
and  harmony  as  the  good  things  obtainable  here  in  the  earth. 

Humility  in  action,  in  loveableness  and  cheerfulness  will 
surely  draw  people  unto  us,  and  it  will  gain  of  the  very  best 
of  their  service.  The  harmony  of  love's  presence  expressed  by 
any  one  will  be  a  great  joy  to  all  who  come  in  contact  with  it, 
and  these  same  people  will  leave  their  best  thoughts  and  ac- 
tions as  well  as  their  goods  in  the  presence  of  loveliness,  gen- 
tleness, cheerfulness,  etc.,  that  they  may  be  a  blessing  to  them, 
and  coming  under  the  influence  of  love  bring  peace,  true  pos- 
session. 

The  Lord's  Prayer. 

In  the  sixth  chapter  of  Matthew,  verse  10,  we  read  the  third 
section  of  the  Lord's  prayer,  which  is  in  association  with  this 
head  of  the  law  of  Harmony  as  the  truth  of  love: 

"Thy  kingdom  come." 

Thy  kingdom  as  the  truth  of  love,  the  perfected  state  of  love 
in  harmony.     This  perfected  love  come  upon  the  earth  and  be 


Harmony  137 

made  manifest  here  and  now  in  the  form  of  spiritual  harmony; 
that  all  people  may  come  together  in  this  one  state  of  perfec- 
tion and  be  at  peace  with  each  other  and  the  world. 

God's  kingdom  as  the  law  of  love  is  that  which  will  bring 
people  out  of  the  Egypt  of  material  sense  suggestion  into  real- 
ity, and  the  good  of  a  righteous  life  in  the  true  spirit  of  things. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  5:38  Jesus  continues  his  teaching  and  explains  the 
law  of  harmony  to  be  an  absolute  ruling  of  Spirit,  which  does 
not  compromise  with  mortal  man's  ways.  Herein  he  begins  to 
reverse  the  law  of  Moses,  which  reads  an  eye  for  an  eye  and 
a  tooth  for  a  tooth;  this  justice  is  an  exchange  of  evil  to  both 
and  therein  is  not  justice,  as  the  truth  of  right  or  good,  for 
there  is  no  good  in  either  one.  But  Jesus  says  to  resist  not 
evil,  with  the  evil  mortal  sense  of  justice,  which  so  subtly  covers 
real  justice  of  the  spiritual  law.  He  says  that  no  matter  how 
much  evil  appears  unto  us  that  we  must  stand  firm  in  our  ex- 
pression  of   the    good   only. 

Jesus  says  for  us  not  to  ''resist  evil"  with  self  power,  but 
to  overcome  it  with  expressions  of  love.  Again  he  says  to  "resist 
evil"  with  good  and  expressions  of  love,  and  it  will  flee  from  us; 
these  statements  are  one  in  meaning  and  are  according  to  an 
absolute  law  of  one  perfect  way. 

In  verse  43  he  reverses  the  law  of  Moses  again,  wherein 
we  are  commanded  to  love  our  neighbor  and  hate  our  enemy; 
but  Jesus  says  to  love,  and  to  love  our  enemy  as  well  as  our 
friend,  for  love  is  the  absolute  law. 

There  is  nothing  else  which  we  can  do.  He  makes  it  very 
explicit  in  the  following  verses  that  we  are  always  to  love 
under  all  circumstances,  that  we  may  be  truly  children  of  love 
expressing  loveliness  as  the  substance  of  obedience.  Then  he 
points  out  the  Father's  love  as  an  example  for  us  to  follow,  be- 
cause he  says  that  the  Father  sends  His  rain  upon  the  just 
and  also  upon  the  unjust  and  makes  the  sun  to  shine  upon 
the  evil  as  well  as  the  good  and  obedient,  and  we  must  be  like 
the  Father  in  order  to  be  His  reflection  and  image. 


138  The  Christ-Law 

Jesus  says  that  if  we  love  only  those  who  love  us  that  there 
is  no  reward  in  this,  no  reward  of  having  resisted  the  evil  of 
not  loving,  which  reward  is  the  love  expressed.  Jesus  says  that 
the  publicans,  those  of  the  mortal  consciousness  who  live  in  the 
expression  of  good  and  evil,  do  this  kind  of  loving  those  who 
love  them,  but  for  us  not  to  be  like  publicans.  Then  he  com- 
mands us  to  be  absolutely  perfect,  even  as  our  Father  is  perfect 
in  His  expression  of  the  law  of  love  as  harmony. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

RIGHTEOUSNESS 

THE  Love   of   Truth. 

The  Law  of  Perfection  as  the  Will  of  God. 

The  Unfolding  of  the  Law  in  the  Diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethle- 
hem. 

The  original  Star  of  Bethlehem,  as  an  illuminating  and  guiding 
light,  led  the  shepherds  and  the  wise  men  to  the  Christ  child, 
who  came  into  this  world  to  give  unto  mortals  his  life  of  per- 
fection in  exchange  for  theirs'  of  imperfection.  To-day  there  has 
come  into  being  another  star  as  a  diagram  of  the  law  of  the  word 
of  God  which  reveals  the  relation  and  association  of  the  Christ 
ideas  as  states  of  spiritual  being  in  Mind,  which  are  reflected  in 
us  as  states  of  consciousness. 

This  diagram  also  is  to  be  known  as  the  Star  of  Bethlehem, 
"The  light  within  the  house  of  bread."  For  it  will  lead  men  into 
a  knowledge  of  the  Christ-Mind  in  its  absolute  perfection;  and 
this  is  true  about  it,  if  it  is  God's  will  that  it  should  appear, 
then  no  human  power  can  overcome  it,  but  if  not  then  it  shall 
not  prevail. 

When  the  Christ  was  upon  the  earth  represented  in  the  flesh 
he  said,  "The  Father  and  I  are  one."  Also,  "I  am  the  way,  the 
truth  and  the  life:  no  man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me." 
Herein  is  the  law  of  righteousness  revealed,  for  when  we  take 
away  from  Mind  the  Christ-meaning  of  the  supreme  law  of  life, 
love,  truth,  we  have  eliminated  the  very  means  by  which  alone 
we  can  obtain  an  interpretation  of  Mind  and  understand  it. 

For  apart  from  the  life-love-truth-meaning  of  Mind  there  is 
none  to  be  found  which  we  can  understand,  because  the  life-ac- 
tion, love-substance,  truth-perfection  interpretation  covers  every 
phase  of  Mind  being  that  can  be  conceived. 


140  The  Christ-Law 

This  reveals  a  demand  of  the  law  which  is  everywhere  present 
and  must  pertain  to  every  idea  of  Mind ;  which  is^  that  three  ideas 
shall  be  given  as  substitutes  for  the  life-action^  love-substance^ 
truth-perfection-meaning  in  order  to  reveal  the  perfect  Christ- 
law  in  ideas  as  things. 

Therefore^  in  the  same  way  that  the  Father  and  the  Christ- 
meaning  of  the  Father  are  one — that  is^  the  Father  and  His  will 
or  law  are  one — so  also  is  the  Christ  and  the  Christ-meaning  one, 
as  given  in  infinite  ideas  of  the  law  of  absolute  perfection. 

**I  am  the  way,  the  truth  and  the  life."  Herein  is  the  law  of 
Mind  established,  for  if  Mind  requires  three  other  ideas  to  give 
it  meaning,  then  every  idea  of  mind  in  every  integral  part  as  a 
unit  of  truth  must  follow  the  same  law,  hence  the  way  must  be 
through  Mind  or  Spiritual  ideas  as  states  of  consciousness,  and 
the  truth  must  be  these  states  of  spiritual  being  as  a  law  of 
perfection;  and  the  life  must  be  their  active  expression  in  con- 
science, all  of  which  is  the  Christ-meaning  of  God. 

"No  man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me."  This  must 
mean  that  no  man  can  gain  an  understanding  of  the  Father  except 
through  the  Christ-meaning  as  given  in  infinite  ideas  of  life- 
action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection,  for  this  law  of  perfect 
idea  entities  represents  the  Christ-Spirit  of  infinite  goodness  and 
love. 

The  portrayal  of  the  principle  of  perfect  idea  entities  as 
given  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem  reveals  our  true  consciousness 
as  living  within  the  Christ-Mind,  wherein  alone  there  is  under- 
standing and  knowledge. 

When  we  awake  to  the  realization  that  our  life  and  its  living 
is  a  state  of  spiritual  being  alone,  as  an  active  mentality,  gov- 
erned and  controlled  absolutely  by  this  absolute  law  of  righteous- 
ness which  expresses  the  will  of  good  in  its  life-love-truth- way, 
then  we  shall  find  our  real  selfhood  in  the  image  of  Christ*s  per- 
fection. 

From  foregoing  chapters  we  already  know  that  this  law  is 
applicable  and  practical  in  its  use  here  and  now,  and  that  it  will 
prevail  against  every  error  when  known ;  also  that  it  can  be  sure- 
ly and  certainly  learned  in  perfection  and  used  scientifically  to 


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work  out  our  life  problems,  and  thereby  gain  the  protection  which 
comes  with  knowing  these  ideas  as  laws. 

When  the  day  comes  in  which  we  arise  and  know  that  we  are 
not  material,  but  are  spiritual  mentalities  only,  because  we  live 
in  mind  only — ^that  is,  within  the  soul  expression  of  these  right 
ideas,  and  that  when  expressing  them  we  are  like  them  and  are 
them  expressed,  and  that  there  is  no  power  anywhere  that  can 
destroy  this  expression  when  once  known,  for  it  is  supreme  in  its 
perfection — then  we  shall  come  into  our  God-given  dominion  and 
be  master  of  ourselves  and  all  conditions  around  us. 

This  law  of  righteousness  as  portrayed  in  the  Star  of  Bethle- 
hem expresses  the  allness,  presence  and  power  of  Mind  as  seated 
within  our  secret  place  of  knowing,  and  herein  only  is  it  to  be 
found  and  understood. 

Many  minds  have  supplied  many  interpretations  for  the  law 
of  righteousness  as  one  truth;  but  regardless  of  this  the  law  it- 
self is  still  one  perfect  state  of  being,  which  has  one  perfect 
meaning  as  that  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection 
for  all  things  within  the  universe. 

When  the  time  comes  that  we  all  know  this  fact  of  one  mean- 
ing and  use  it  exclusively,  then  shall  we  all  come  together  and 
be  of  one  mind  in  one  place  of  conscience,  and  be  at  peace  with 
each  other. 

Our  own  laws  will  be  laid  aside  as  very  unprofitable,  and  the 
one  law  of  the  Christ  righteousness  will  be  substituted  for  them 
and  will  be  found  to  prevail  in  manifesting  good  always. 

In  Matt.  12:30  we  read,  "He  that  is  not  with  me  is  against 
me,  and  he  that  gathereth  not  with  me  scattereth  abroad.'* 

He  that  is  not  heart  and  soul  in  the  expression  of  the  Christ 
law  of  righteousness,  giving  his  absolute  allegiance  thereto,  is 
against  it,  for  there  is  no  dishonest  honesty,  no  imperfect  truth 
and  no  divided  allegiance  which  has  or  can  have  any  real  being. 
He  that  gathereth  not  true  knowledge  through  expression 
of  the  ideas  of  this  law  of  one  righteousness  in  its  life-love-truth- 
meaning  alone,  scattereth  abroad  the  imperfect  sense  concepts  of 
death  and  error. 

The  order  of  the  construction  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem  is 
Jife,  love,  truth,  within  the  realm  of  Love,  and  love,  truth,  life, 


142  The  Christ-Law  | 

within  the  realm  of  Truth^  and  truth^  life,  love^  within  the  realm 
of  Life.  This  order  gives  an  evenly  balanced  star^  for  no  two 
like  ideas  come  together  unbalanced.  This  arrangement  proves 
the  way  of  the  law;  in  fact,  it  cannot  be  arranged  in  any  other 
way  J,  and  this  order  is  carried  out  into  infinite  expression  of 
Mind^s  being  through  the  ever-repeated  life-love-truth-meaning. 

That  Mind  is  all  power  is  shown  in  the  following  facts  about 
this  law  as  represented  in  the  Star.  Now  love  cannot  seal  itself 
within  our  conscience  and  make  us  to  know,  but  our  conscience 
is  sealed  through  love's  perfection  as  represented  in  harmony; 
therefore  truth  as  perfection  seals  our  consciousness  of  love's 
presence.  In  the  same  way  truth  is  sealed  and  made  manifest 
and  knowable  by  its  life  idea  or  dominion.  And  life  is  sealed 
and  made  knowable  through  its  love  idea  as  wisdom. 

Love  is  made  manifest  and  introduced  by  its  life  idea  of  obedi- 
ence; and  truth  is  made  manifest  and  introduced  by  its  love  idea 
of  righteousness;  while  life  is  made  manifest  and  introduced  by 
its  truth  idea  of  intelligence. 

It  will  help  the  reader  to  trace  these  relations  out  upon  the 
diagram  of  the  Star  and  thereby  get  acquainted  with  its  structure. 

The  Construction  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem. 

This  nine-pointed  star  is  composed  of  three  triangles,  one 
each  of  life,  love,  truth;  and  as  the  allness  of  Mind  is  within 
each  and  every  idea  then  each  of  these  ideas  of  life,  love,  truth 
must  contain  its  just  and  due  portion  of  the  other  two.  For  the 
sake  of  illustration  let  us  consider  that  the  triangle  of  love  has 
one  point  of  life,  another  of  truth  and  another  of  love.  Now, 
having  three  triangles,  one  each  of  life,  love,  truth,  and  each  of 
these  divided  into  a  life  point,  a  love  point  and  truth  point,  by 
placing  one  triangle  on  top  of  the  other  we  get  a  nine-pointed 
star.  This  gives  us  three  points  to  form  a  realm  of  love;  three 
more  to  form  a  realm  of  truth,  and  three  more  to  form  a  realm 
of  life.  Each  realm  to  contain  a  representative  of  life,  love, 
truth. 

Herein  is  the  development  of  Mind  shown  to  be  a  law,  for  even 
as  Mind  is  divided  into  its  life-love-truth-meaning,  just  in  the 


RiGHTEOUNESS  143 

same  way  must  love  as  an  idea  of  Mind  be  divided  into  its  life- 
love-truth-meaning  also.  By  this  plan  we  have  the  life  of  love, 
the  love  of  love,  the  truth  of  love,  using  three  points  of  the  Star 
to  express  the  realm  of  love,  and  in  like  manner  is  the  realm  of 
truth  represented,  and  the  realm  of  life  also. 

Therefore  the  first  development  or  offspring  from  Mind  equals 
life,  love,  truth ;  the  second  development  of  Mind's  meaning  is  the 
same  law  repeated,  for  the  life  of  love,  the  love  of  love  and  the 
truth  of  love  are  direct  offsprings  from  love  and  express  the 
Christ-  meaning  of  Love. 

Now  we  have  come  to  the  point  where  we  must  consider  the 
meaning  of  life,  love,  truth,  before  we  can  go  further  with  our 
development  of  Mind's  meaning;  and  the  following  table  will 
give  us  the  clue  to  our  further  progress. 

The  action  of  Mind  equals  Life. 
The  substance  of  Mind  equals  Love. 
The    perfection    of    Mind    equals    Truth. 

These  three  concepts  reveal  the  first  revelation  of  just  what 
Mind  means  to  us,  and  establishes  the  law  of  spiritual  interpreta- 
tion; for  every  idea  is  to  receive  its  spiritual  meaning  from 
three  other  ideas  which  act  as  its  counterparts,  or  other  self;  and 
are  to  serve  the  purpose  of  giving  to  it  the  meaning  of  life-ac- 
tion, love-substance,  truth-perfection.  In  this  way  is  every  idea 
as  a  state  of  consciousness  given  one  definite  meaning  of  life,  love, 
truth.  For  this  is  the  one  and  only  meaning  which  can  be  given 
and  which  we  can  understand;  it  is  all  sufficient,  convincing,  sat- 
isfying and  final  in  its  testimony,  and  it  cannot  be  overcome, 
neither  denied. 

The  Realm  of  Love. 

Therefore  each  and  every  idea  must  have  its  counterparts,  and 
in  furtherance  of  this  plan  we  find  that  the  demand  of  the  law 
in  the  process  of  its  self  development  requires  that  we  furnish 
an  idea  in  consciousness  which  will  meet  the  requirements  of  and 
fulfill  the  meaning  of  the  life  of  love;  that  is,  what  idea  entity 
as  a  state  of  conscious  being  will  fulfill  the  required  demands  of 
the  life  or  action  of  love.^    We  find  without  question  that  Obedi- 


144  The  Christ-Law 

ence  is  that  required  state  of  consciousness^  for  it  certainly  is  an 
act  of  love.  Now  in  this  way  is  the  name  and  its  meaning  sup- 
plied to  the  first  point  of  the  Star  in  the  realm  of  love.  Next 
the  demand  of  the  law  is  for  an  idea  that  will  satisfy  and  fulfill 
the  meaning  of  the  love  of  love-^  and  we  find  that  Holiness  is  the 
very  substance  of  good  as  the  love  of  love.  There  still  remains 
one  point  within  the  realm  of  love  to  be  named,  which  is  the 
point  of  the  truth  of  love;  this  is  fulfilled  and  satisfied  by  the 
idea  of  Harmony,  for  where  there  is  true  love  there  is  harmony. 
Therefore  the  spiritual  or  Christ-meaning  of  love  is  Obedience, 
Holiness  and  Harmony,  and  it  cannot  have  any  other  in  the 
second  revelation  of  Mind,  for  these  represent  its  life-love-truth 
meaning. 

Obedience  as  life  within  the  realm  of  Love. 
Holiness  as  love  within  the  realm  of  Love. 
Harmony  as  truth  within  the  realm  of  Love. 

These  are  the  three  heads  of  the  law  within  the  realm  of  Love. 

The  Realm  of  Truth. 

In  the  realm  of  truth  we  are  required  to  find  a  symbol  that  will 
represent  the  love  of  truth.  Righteousness  as  the  substance  of 
right  is  the  love-substance  of  truth,  without  any  doubt,  and  gives 
a  name  to  the  fourth  point  of  the  Star. 

Next  is  required  a  symbol  to  represent  the  state  of  conscious- 
ness of  the  truth  of  truth,  and  Principle  covers  all  that  is  re- 
quired, for  it  is  the  absolute  and  perfect  truth. 

Last  of  all  within  the  realm  of  truth  we  are  to  supply  an  idea 
to  fulfill  the  demands  of  the  life  of  truth.  This  idea  is  to  repre- 
sent the  absolute  prevailing  of  the  law,  and  Dominion  meets  this 
demand. 

Therefore  the  spiritual  or  Christ-meaning  of  truth  is  Right- 
eousness, Principle,  Dominion;  it  can  have  none  other,  for  these 
express  the  one  meaning  of  love,  truth,  life. 

Righteousness  as  love  within  the  realm  of  Truth. 
Principle  as  truth  within  the  realm  of  Truth. 
Dominion  as  life  within  the  realm  of  Truth. 


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These  three  ideas  are  the  heads  of  the  law  in  the  realm  of 
Truth. 

The  Realm  of  Life. 

Next  comes  the  realm  of  life^  and  we  are  required  to  find  an 
idea  which  will  satisfy  and  fulfill  the  meaning  of  the  truth  of 
life.  This  is  supplied  in  Intelligence^  for  there  is  no  life  without 
intelligence  and  to  be  life  it  must  be  perfect. 

Next  we  are  required  to  furnish  a  symbol  for  the  life  of  life, 
which  is  satisfied  at  once  by  the  consciousness  of  Being  for  to  be 
is  the  very  living  of  life  action. 

Next  comes  the  last  idea  as  a  head  of  the  law.  It  is  to  fulfill 
the  demand  of  the  love  of  life,  and  Wisdom  meets  this  demand, 
for  wisdom  is  the  substance  of  life-action  in  the  knowing  of  all 
ideas. 

Therefore  the  spiritual  or  Christ-meaning  of  life  is  Intelli- 
gence, Being,  Wisdom;  and  there  is  none  other,  for  these  repre- 
sent the  truth-life-love-meaning. 

Intelligence  as  truth  within  the  realm  of  Life. 
Being  as  life  within  the  realm  of  Life. 
Wisdom  as  love  within  the  realm  of  Life. 

These  ideas  are  the  heads  of  the  law  in  the  realm  of  Life. 

The  Associated  Meaning  of  the  Life-Love-Truth  Concepts. 
First,  the   Concepts  of  the  Active   Life   Ideas. 

The    active    working    will    of    good;    to 
??^?}^^P^'  manifest    the     living     substance     of     the 

The  life  of  love.  t-.     i         n»         t  o. 

Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 

The  active  working  will  of  good;  to 
manifest  the  active  perfection  of  the 
Father-Mind   or    Spirit. 

The  active  working  will  of  good;  to 
manifest  the  life  energy  of  the  Father- 
Mind  or  Spirit. 


DOMINION. 
The  life  of  truth. 


BEING. 

The  life  of  life. 


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The  Christ-Law 


Second,  the  Concepts  of  the  Substantial  Love  Ideas. 


RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
The  love  of  truth. 


WISDOM. 

The  love  of  life. 


HOLINESS. 
The  love  of  love. 


The  substantial  presence  of  good ;  to 
manifest  the  substantial  perfection  of  the 
Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 

The  substantial  presence  of  good;  to 
manifest  the  substantial  action  of  the 
Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 

The  substantial  presence  of  good;  to 
manifest  the  substantial  body  of  the 
Father-Mind  or  Spirit. 


Third,  the  Concepts  of  the  Perfected  Truth  Ideas. 

The  perfect  perfection  of  good ;  to  mani- 
fest the  perfect  action  of  the  Father-Mind 
or  Spirit. 

The  perfect  perfection  of  good ;  to  mani- 
fest the  perfect  substance  of  the  Father- 
Mind  or  Spirit. 

The  perfect  perfection  of  good ;  to  mani- 
fest the  perfected  state  of  the  Father- 
Mind  or  Spirit. 


intelligence. 

The  truth  of  life. 


HARMONY. 
The  truth  of  loVe. 


PRINCIPLE. 

The  truth  of  truth. 


It  will  be  seen  that  there  are  three  ideas  of  life-action,  and 
three  ideas  of  love-substance,  also  three  ideas  of  truth-perfec- 
tion. These  are  arranged  in  progressive  order  as  to  their  power 
of  being;  at  least  as  to  our  gaining  a  perception  of  them,  for  we 
gain  our  perception  of  God  in  progressive  steps  as  a  matter  of 
spiritual  growth;  this  comes  to  us  in  an  orderly  way  according 
to  a  perfect  principle  of  procedure  and  we  find  it  to  be  perfectly 
satisfying  and  final  in  our  consciousness  of  law. 

The  Relation  of  the  Nine  Heads  of  the  Law. 

From  the  consciousness  of  obedience  (the  life  action  of  love 
substance)  is  holiness  (love's  substance)  revealed,  as  a  result  of 
Mind's  action  upon  substance. 


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From  the  consciousness  of  obedience  (the  life  action  of  love 
substance)  and  holiness  (love's  substance)  is  harmony  (the 
truth  perfection  of  love  substance)  revealed,  as  a  result  of  Mind's 
action  upon  substance  perfected. 

From  the  consciousness  of  holiness  (love's  substance)  and  har- 
mony (the  truth  perfection  of  love  substance)  is  righteousness 
(the  love  substance  of  truth  perfection)  revealed,  as  a  result  of 
Mind's  substance  perfected. 

Here  we  see  that  the  second  and  third  points  of  the  Star  within 
the  realm  of  love  are  combined  together  to  form  the  first  one 
within  the  realm  of  truth.  Thus  sealing  the  realms  of  love  and 
truth  together,  for  the  love  which  we  learned  in  the  realm  of 
love  is  carried  over  into  the  realm  of  truth  to  begin  that  realm. 

From  the  consciousness  of  righteousness  (the  love  substance  of 
truth  perfection)  is  principle  (truth's  perfection)  revealed,  as  a 
result  of  Mind's  substantial  perfection. 

From  the  consciousness  of  righteousness  (the  love  substance  of 
truth  perfection)  and  principle  (truth's  perfection)  is  dominion 
(the  life  action  of  truth  perfection)  revealed,  as  a  result  of 
Mind's  substance  and  perfection  in  action. 

From  the  consciousness  of  principle  (truth's  perfection)  and 
dominion  (the  life  action  of  truth  perfection)  is  intelligence  (the 
truth  perfection  of  life-action)  revealed^  as  the  result  of  Mind's 
perfection  in  action. 

Herein  we  see  that  the  second  and  third  points  of  the  Star  in 
the  realm  of  truth  are  combined  together  to  produce  the  first 
point  in  the  realm  of  life.  Thus  sealing  the  realms  of  truth  and 
life  together,  for  the  truth  which  we  learned  in  the  realm  of 
truth  is  carried  over  into  the  realm  of  life  to  begin  that  realm. 

From  the  consciousness  of  intelligence  (the  truth  perfection  of 
life  action)  is  being  (life's  action)  revealed  as  a  result  of  Mind's 
perfect  action. 

From  the  consciousness  of  intelligence  (the  truth  perfection  of 
life  action)  and  being  (life's  action)  is  wisdom  (the  love  sub- 
stance of  life  action)  revealed,  as  a  result  of  Mind's  perfection 
and  action  substantiated. 


148  The  Christ-Law 

From  the  consciousness  of  being  (life  action)  and  wisdom  (the 
love  substance  of  life  action)  is  obedience  (the  life  action  of  love 
substance)  revealed^  as  a  result  of  Mind's  active  substance. 

Herein  we  see  that  the  second  and  third  points  of  the  Star 
within  the  realm  of  life  are  combined  together  to  produce  the 
first  point  in  the  realm  of  love.  Thus  sealing  the  realms  of  life 
and  love  together^  for  the  life  which  we  learned  within  the  realm 
of  life  is  carried  over  into  the  realm  of  love  to  begin  that  realm. 

This  relation  of  the  nine  heads  of  the  law  gives  us  a  continu- 
ous concept  of  Mind's  meaning  from  obedience  around  to  obedi- 
ence again;  for  it  takes  a  complete  circle  to  give  a  full  meaning 
of  Mind;  and  it  is  necessary  to  be  full  and  complete  in  meaning. 
One  idea  in  consciousness  must  reveal  the  other  one  next  to  it^ 
and  in  this  way  we  have  one  continuous  concept  of  Mind  on  a 
larger  scale  with  each  circle's  revelation. 

We  must  make  an  effort  to  perceive  clearly  and  understand 
the  three  stages  of  our  development  in  passing  through  one  com- 
plete concept  as  the  attainment  of  a  right  idea^  and  especially  of 
these  heads  of  the  law. 

The  Nine  Stages  of   Spiritual  Perception. 

Beginning  with  obedience  as  the  life  of  love^  we  find  that  it 
is  really  our  first  start  towards  the  understanding  of  spiritual 
things^  and  is  in  degree  the  physical  perception  or  perception 
while  in  the  physical. 

From  this  attainment  of  obedience  which  is  apt  to  be  rather 
crude  at  first  we  gain  a  concept  of  its  possibilities  and  with 
practice  we  are  sure  to  improve  and  realize  its  purport  and  ad- 
vantage to  us^  so  that  eventually  we  become  obedient  knowingly. 
And  from  this  state  of  consciousness  we  are  led  into  the  second 
stage  of  realization  of  life's  action.  Which  is  high  above  that 
of  obedience^  and  is  a  resulting  state  of  being  obedient;  it  con- 
tains all  of  obedience  and  more^  for  it  is  absolute  dominion  as 
the  life  of  truth.  When  we  arrive  at  this  stage  of  life's  action 
we  are  expected  to  put  it  in  practice  and  be  master  of  all  situa- 
tions; it  is  the  use  of  our  knowing  which  we  have  gained  made 
manifest  in  works.  Having  gained  these  two  states  of  being  in 
life  action,  then  we  are  worthy  and  ready  to  enter  into  life  as  the 


Righteousness  149 

state  of  the  life  of  life  or  Being,  this  is  the  highest  state  and 
concept  of  life  which  we  can  obtain  here,  and  it  will  put  us  to 
the  trial  of  our  very  best  efforts  to  attain  it  even  here. 

Next  comes  the  second  stage  of  our  progress  still  on  a  higher 
plane  of  existence;  and  beginning  with  righteousness  as  the  love 
of  truth,  we  find  that  it  is  the  beginning  of  the  realm  of  love, 
and  is  the  result  of  having  gained  life  action,  which  produces 
love  substance.  This  first  degree  of  love  is  found  to  be  a  con- 
cept of  right,  for  right  is  our  first  understanding  of  that  which 
is  good,  and  of  course  we  know  that  good  is  love;  this  right  as 
a  perfect  law  is  found  to  be  expressed  in  the  right  ideas  of  the 
Christ-law  only.  It  is  attained  by  us  in  proportion  to  our  ex- 
pression of  these  ideas  as  states  of  consciousness.  Hav- 
ing gained  the  expression  of  some  of  these  we  are  then  ready  to 
know  the  second  stage  of  our  growth  in  love  and  find  it  in  wis- 
dom; for  wisdom  is  the  expression  of  all  these  perfect  idea 
entities,  and  surely  we  become  wise  in  the  proportion  to  our 
expression  of  them.  From  an  attainment  of  wisdom,  that  is,  an 
honest  living  of  these  ideas,  we  are  prepared  to  understand 
what  is  meant  by  holiness,  the  third  and  highest  state  of  love; 
for  without  a  concept  of  right  we  could  not  know  right  ideas  in 
wisdom,  and  gain  thereby  true  holiness. 

Next  comes  the  third  and  last  stage  of  our  spiritual  perception 
in  being  educated  to  understand  God  and  His  absolute  law  of 
perfection,  for  in  truth  we  gain  the  final  concepts  of  the  perfect 
law. 

Beginning  with  intelligence  as  the  truth  of  life,  we  find  that 
it  is  a  resulting  state  of  being  from  that  which  we  have  already 
learned,  for  intelligence  is  the  law  in  action,  and  by  the  law  is 
meant  love  or  holiness.  When  we  gain  a  concept  and  expression 
of  holiness  in  action  then  are  we  fitted  to  realize  the  second  stage 
in  the  realm  of  truth  which  is  harmony,  and  harmony  from  the 
spiritual  standpoint  cannot  be  gained  rightfully  except  through 
this  progress  of  the  law's  way.  Having  gained  harmony,  that 
harmony  which  is  of  the  soul,  not  that  of  material  sense,  we  are 
qualified  to  understand  principle  the  highest  knowledge  of  God 
obtainable. 


150  The  Christ-Law 

These  nine  degrees  of  the  life-love-truth-meaning  of  the  Christ- 
law  are  to  be  studied  very  carefully  step  by  step,  so  that  we 
may  surely  gain  each  state  of  our  growth  and  know  each  one  as 
a  step  in  progress,  and  also  realize  just  where  we  are  in  the 
ladder  of  assent  up  to  God.  It  is  the  oneness  of  the  law  which 
we  are  to  find,  by  finding  the  individual  members  each  to  be 
one  state  of  good  in  perfection.  This  represents  the  truth  which 
Jesus  said  we  were  to  know  and  by  means  of  which  we  were  to 
be  made  free  from  every  thing  apart  from  the  law's  expression. 

How  TO  Know  This  Head  of  the   Law. 

In  what  way  can  we  master  this  head  of  the  law  of  righteous- 
ness, and  gain  an  added  power  of  mind-action  because  of  know- 
ing the  law.^ 

Righteousness  is  the  law  of  holiness  made  perfect,  for  right- 
eousness is  the  law  of  holiness  and  harmony  combined. 

We  continue  with  our  concept  of  freedom  in  the  point  of  har- 
mony to  a  concept  of  judgment  in  the  point  of  righteousness,  and 
they  are  both  active  thoughts  and  similar  in  that  respect. 

To  understand  this  point  of  the  Star  as  one  of  the  heads  of 
the  law  we  must  learn  the  Christ-meaning  of  righteousness.  Judg- 
ment as  the  life-action  of  righteousness  is  the  right  judgment  of 
all  things;  that  is,  right  as  a  fixed  law  judges  all  things  in  its 
sure  prevailing.  Honesty  as  the  love  substance  of  righteous- 
ness is  the  foundation  of  this  head  of  the  law,  and  must  be  used 
by  us  all  in  our  effort  to  rise  above  error.  Justice  is  the  per- 
fected state  of  righteousness,  and  stands  for  right  as  an  absolute 
law,  from  which  there  is  no  appeal. 

This  point  of  righteousness  is  dedicated  especially  to  the  law, 
for  the  rightness  of  one  right  is  the  absolute  law  of  all  spiritual 
being ;  it  represents  perfect  right  as  the  holiness  of  good  and  love. 

To  realize  this  law  as  expressed  by  righteousness  we  begin 
with  judgment  which  exists  within  our  consciousness  as  an  ability 
to  distinguish  between  the  testimony  of  sense  and  soul  interpre- 
tations, between  that  which  produces  disobedience  and  obedience ; 
for  judgment  is  a  continued  realization  of  freedom;  one  is  the 
life-action  of  harmony  and  the  other  is  the  life-action  of  right- 


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151 


eousness^  which  means  a  liberty  to  choose  untrammeled  as  a  ra- 
tional choice  in  reason.  Judgment  is  a  soul  realization  of  the 
perfect  as  rights  overcoming  the  imperfect  as  wrong,  therein 
revealing  love.  When  we  once  have  this  state  of  consciousness  as 
the  love  of  righteousness  established  we  find  honesty  present  to 
fulfill  its  perfect  meaning.  Its  presence  is  there  because  of  the 
compelling  power  of  good  in  its  irresistible  attraction  unto  us, 
for  the  integrity,  morality,  and  uprightness  in  honesty  always 
leads  us  into  peace  and  love  which  reveals  the  body  of  the  law 
of  holiness. 

Finally  our  knowing  is  sealed  by  justice  in  its  concept  of  fair- 
ness, equity  and  justification  as  the  perfect  right  in  one  law  of 
good. 

Righteousness  is  surely  a  law,  for  right  is  one  of  the  first 
concepts  which  we  get  acquainted  with,  and  it  stays  with  us 
all  of  our  days ;  it  is  our  standard  of  good  and  we  seek  its  pre- 
vailing for  ourselves  even  when  willing  to  be  blind  to  that  which 
the  other  man  gets.  Right  is  an  uncompromising  law  and  knows 
no  partiality  to  anyone. 


Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Law  of  Righteousness. 


Righteousness 
Error 


Judgment  i^^^i^r"*"" 

Compromise  Cho:ce„ 


Honesty 
Hypocrisy 


Justice 
Imposition 


Futility 

Undisc^rnment 

Enigma 


(  Integrity  Duplicity 

•<  Morality  Sacrilege 

( Uprightness  Fraud 

I  Fairness  Partiality 

•<  Equity  Artifice 

( Justification  Imputation 


RIGHTEOUSNESS,  the  Love  of  Truth,  versus  ERROR,  as  a 

Hate    Concept. 

Error  is  the  mortal  concept  of  that  which  seems  to  be  wrong, 

the  imaginary  mortal  concepts  about  material  conditions  which 

we  think  should  be  accounted  as  worthy  and  of  benefit.     Error, 


152  The  Christ-Law 

however,  stands  for  a  mistake,  even  an  absence  which  is  not 
present  and  has  no  being  or  power  to  come  into  presence,  there- 
fore it  is  nothingness. 

There  seems  to  be  a  suggestion  which  appears  to  be  something 
and  to  be  worthy  of  notice;  we  are  often  deceived  by  this  false 
impression  and  accept  nothing  as  a  suggestion  for  something; 
this  is  our  error  and  it  is  all  nothingness.  All  right  things  are 
present  as  a  law,  and  their  very  presence  is  bound  to  be  right 
when  we  know  law  as  absolute  only. 

Error  as  a  mortal  concept  is  not  a  concept  but  an  imagination 
of  one,  and  it  affects  us  just  in  the  proportion  to  our  allegiance 
to  it  in  fear,  for  when  we  gain  the  understanding  that  it  is  harm- 
less and  has  no  power  or  being  of  its  own,  we  lose  our  fear,  and 
cease  the  use  of  our  mind-action  upon  it. 

There  is  one  law  of  righteousness  and  one  only;  it  is  suffi- 
cient for  all  of  our  life-actions.  Therefore  we  need  no  man- 
made  laws  to  help  law  to  be  law,  neither  presence  to  be  present, 
for  these  mortal  laws  defile  the  law  of  one  righteousness  and  hide 
its  purity  from  us. 


JUDGMENT,    THE    Life    of    Righteousness^  versus    COM- 
PROMISE, AS  A  Death  Concept 

Compromise  is  a  subtle  concept  of  delay  because  of  conscious 
defeat.  Its  intent  is  to  escape  punishment  because  of  the  pre- 
vailing power  of  the  perfect  law  of  judgment  in  righteousness. 
It  would  evade  justice  in  the  law  of  right,  but  there  is  no  compro- 
mise with  the  law,  for  we  are  simply  justified  or  condemned 
according  to  our  doings.  This  fact  is  one  reason  why  people  get 
careless  after  making  many  mistakes;  they  feel  that  it  is  no  use 
because  they  do  not  have  a  chance  as  they  call  it,  that  is  a  chance 
to  compromise  with  the  law  and  work  in  a  little  of  their  error. 

Judgment  holds  us  to  the  scratch  in  its  wonderful  wisdom 
and  there  is  but  one  thing  that  we  can  do;  it  is  to  obey  the  law 
completely. 


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HONESTY,   THE    Love    of    Righteousness,   versus   HYPOC- 
RISY, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Hypocrisy  is  an  effort  to  combine  good  and  evil  for  the  con- 
venience of  using  either  one  which  may  appear  most  to  our  ad- 
vantage. But  this  is  an  effort  to  deceive  and  to  make  nothing- 
ness into  something  which  is  to  fit  our  desire.  For  instance  we 
try  to  substitute  an  imagination  for  a  truth,  often  for  the  purpose 
of  saving  ourselves  only  to  find  that  it  is  all  impotent  and  hope- 
less, and  suffer  our  embarrassment  for  assuming  that  which  we 
are  not.  Hypocrisy  is  the  impotent  mortal  striving  to  escape 
from  itself  and  pose  as  something  good  and  desirable,  but  it  has 
neither  being,  right,  substance,  nor  truth  with  which  to  act. 

JUSTICE,    THE    Truth     of     Righteousness,   versus   IMPO- 
SITION, as  a  False  Concept. 

Imposition  is  an  evil  suggestion  of  the  mortal  sense,  both 
hateful  and  selfish  in  intent  and  purpose,  and  is  entirely  a  mortal 
consciousness  or  imagination,  for  God  did  not  make  it  as  a  part 
of  the  law. 

The  righteous  law  of  God  never  imposed  upon  anyone,  even 
if  it  does  judge  with  absolute  justice;  for  in  this  justice  there 
is  mercy  of  the  right  kind,  also  care  and  protection  for  those  who 
obey  the  law. 

Imposition  is  the  result  of  imperfect  or  incomplete  interpreta- 
tion^ and  because  it  is  not  absolute  law  it  imposes  on  some  one; 
this  is  the  fact  with  all  mortal  laws  and  there  is  no  help  but 
to  obey  the  one  law. 

RATIONALITY,  the  Truth  of  Judgment,  versus  FUTIL- 
ITY, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Futility  is  a  mortal  consciousness  of  its  own  impotence,  and 
is  one  of  the  sources  from  which  we  get  our  suggestion  of  evil. 
Futility  is  meaningless  to  the  child  of  God,  who  knows  the  law 
of  righteousness  as  prevailing  everywhere.  Futility  is  a  death 
thought  and  would  have  you  cease  your  being,  even  all  your 
effort  to  do  things.    We  get  tangled  up  with  this  unlawful  sense 


154  The  Christ-Law 

of  futility  as  an  experience  with  nothingness^  believing  it  to  be 
something  mighty  and  dreadful,  and  accept  it  as  stronger  than 
we  are  when  it  is  helpless  to  prevail  against  us. 

CHOICE,    THE    Life    of    Judgment,    versus    UNDISCERN- 
MENT,  AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Undiscernment  is  that  blinded  and  helpless  way  of  mortals  in 
not  trying,  the  death  of  being  satisfied  not  to  reach  forth  and 
prevail.  It  is  the  sin  of  stupidity  put  in  practice  continually. 
An  undiscerning  mind  which  is  not  able  to  choose  but  drifts 
along  without  effort  to  gain  its  rightful  selfhood  and  live. 

Choice  within  our  consciousness  is  not  between  good  and  evil 
but  is  the  declaring  of  the  allness  of  one  right,  which  always 
prevails  in  the  truth  of  things  which  go  to  make  up  our  lives. 

REASON,  THE   Love   of   Judgment,   versus   ENIGMA,   as   a 

Hate  Concept. 

Enigma  is  a  state  of  confusion  of  the  mortal  consciousness, 
and  does  not  express  mind-action  for  it  has  no  meaning  to  ex- 
press. As  an  enigma  it  is  a  suggestion  only  without  substance, 
without  understanding,  and  cannot  be  thought,  known,  or  under- 
stood. 

It  attracts  our  attention  and  then  distracts  our  thoughts  because 
we  are  disappointed  at  finding  nothing  substantial.  An  enigma 
cannot  be  placed  in  mind  and  is  wholly  without  being. 

Reason  speaks  at  once  of  the  law  of  good  and  right,  and 
places  us  upon  a  sound  foundation  wherein  we  can  abide  in  faith 
and  trust;  because  reason  is  a  part  of  the  righteous  law  of  the 
Christ,  and  through  it  we  arrive  at  the  truth  of  true  being. 

INTEGRITY,  the   Life   of   Honesty,   versus   DUPLICITY, 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Duplicity  is  an  expression  of  the  dead  mortal  sense-mind,  for 
it  is  not  found  in  the  law  of  the  Christ.  Duplicity  is  being  de- 
ceitful for  the  sake  of  personal  gain  at  our  neighbor's  expense, 
if  we  did  but  know  that  that  which  we  gained  was  death  and  the 


Righteousness  155 

destruction  of  our  soul's  understanding,  then  we  would  not  be 
so  quick  to  practice  duplicity.  The  self-will  in  deeds  of  du- 
plicity and  deceit  covers  the  will  of  good  in  the  Christ-law,  and 
buries  us  deep  in  mortality  where  we  experience  the  confusion 
of  fear,  also  the  darkness  of  self  sufficiency  and  ability  to  main- 
tain our  own  ways.  The  chaos  of  duplicity  in  our  lives  as  that 
which  opposes  the  honesty  of  the  law  must  be  overcome  by  under- 
standing what  it  is. 

MORALITY,  THE  Love  of  Honesty,  versus  SACRILEGE,  as 
A  Hate  Concept. 

Sacrilege  is  a  mortal  imagination  of  a  right  to  do  as  one 
pleases ;  that  is,  to  live  the  carnal  mortality  without  any  restraint. 
For  sacrilege  does  not  recognize  a  higher  power  than  its  own 
will,  and  is  guided  entirely  by  its  own  selfish  interests.  It  has 
no  concept  of  things  sacred  and  no  respect  for  anything  except 
mortal  force  greater  than  itself.  Its  aim  is  through  hate  to  defile 
everything  good,  sweet  and  pure,  and  to  drag  down  to  its  level 
every  one  who  comes  in  its  way,  that  it  may  revel  in  its  manifesta- 
tion of  hate ;  we  cannot  afford  to  even  sense  this  concept. 

Morality  is  the  gaining  of  an  understanding  of  the  law  and 
the  respect  for  it  in  every  way. 

UPRIGHTNESS,  the  Truth  of  Honesty,  versus  FRAUD, 
AS  A  False  Concept. 

Fraud  is  a  word  which  has  been  coined  by  mortals  to  represent 
our  imagination  that  we  can  mock  God's  law  and  succeed.  It  is 
a  belief  that  we  can  overcome  the  law  of  the  Christ  righteousness 
and  thereby  make  truth  into  a  lie.  Fraud,  however,  represents 
nothingness  and  has  no  power,  neither  spiritual  being  of  any 
kind.  Fraud  was  not  made  by  the  law  for  our  good  and  given 
unto  us  that  we  might  express  it  and  live,  but  is  intended  to 
hide  life,  while  uprightness  is  our  very  life  expression. 

FAIRNESS,  THE  Love  of  Justice,  versus  PARTIALITY,  as  a 
Hate    Concept. 

Partiality  is  mortal  ignorance  of  the  law  of  one  right,  and  is 
a  prolific  cause  of  confusion  and  hate  among  mortals.     We  are 


156  The  Christ-Law 

very  apt  to  indulge  in  this  subtle  error  as  a  seeming  right,  but  as 
it  is  nothingness  or  selfishness  we  cannot  afford  to  know  it, 
neither  use  it  at  any  time. 

It  represents  me  and  mine  exalted  above  the  law  of  universal 
right,  the  special  privilege  of  the  grafting  mortal-mind.  It  is  an 
outcome  of  the  money  standard  from  the  love  of  ease  and  luxury, 
those  things  of  death  which  are  apart  from  active  life  in  the  law 
of  good. 

EQUITY,  THE   Truth  of  Justice,  versus  ARTIFICE,  as  a 
False  Concept. 

Artifice  is  nowhere  to  be  found  within  the  law  of  good;  as  an 
imagination  of  mortality  it  gets  us  into  condemnation  through 
foolish  beliefs  of  power  unto  ourselves,  which  strives  to  accu- 
mulate material  possessions,  believing  that  they  can  save  us 
from  death  and  fury;  when  in  reality  they  are  the  very  things 
that  bring  death  and  fury. 

For  to  cheat  and  destroy  a  trusting  neighbor  is  death;  to  take 
advantage  of  our  credulous  neighbor  because  he  is  not  as  cautious 
as  we  are  is  death;  it  is  fury  stored  up  for  the  time  when  all 
shall  be  fulfilled. 

When  all  shall  be  filled  full  of  the  good,  and  all  that  is  evil 
shall  cease  to  have  even  an  appearance  of  being. 

JUSTIFICATION,  the  Life   of  Justice,   versus   IMPUTA- 
TION, as  a  Death  Concept. 

Imputation  is  certainly  a  subtle  suggestion,  which  seems  to 
have  some  being,  at  least  some  reason  for  being;  anyway  it 
claims  to  be  worthy  of  our  attention,  and  when  we  give  to  it  our 
attention  we  find  nothing  but  a  suggestion  without  substance  of 
fact.  It  was  a  mere  appearance  which  deceived  us  for  the  time 
being  and  all  that  we  received  out  of  this  experience  was  con- 
fusion in  trying  to  think  something  which  had  no  meaning. 

Imputation  is  not  within  the  law  of  perfect  states  of  being,  and 
can  not  give  us  anything  of  lasting  good  for  it  is  all  falsity,  and 
there  is  no  truth  in  it;  we  must  ignore  its  effort  to  offend  us,  for 
it  is  not  worth  our  while  even  to  recognize  it. 


Righteousness  157 

How  TO  Know  Righteousness. 
We  are  now  ready  to  take  up  the  good  and  perfect  thoughts  as 
states  of  spiritual  being,  and  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
as  a  place  of  righteousness  and  good  conscience.  Our  Master 
said  that  the  kingdom  of  heaven  was  within  our  spiritual  con- 
science or  soul,  and  exists  as  a  living  expression  of  the  perfect  law 
of  the  Christ. 

He  said  that  we  should  know  this  law  of  truth,  through  abiding 
in  its  perfect  and  continuous  expression,  and  that  in  so  doing 
we  would  be  made  free  from  mortal  imaginations  of  evil  as  sin. 
In  abiding  within  the  soul  interpretation  of  things  we  shall  have 
eyes  to  see  and  ears  to  hear,  and  shall  understand  spiritual  truth 
as  a  law  which  is  both  good  and  final. 

Now  having  gone  over  the  preceding  pages  and  found  out  that 
evil  ideas  are  not  real  states  of  consciousness,  for  they  do  not 
express  any  substance,  being  suggestions  only,  then  are  we  ready 
to  begin  our  study  of  the  perfect  ideas  which  have  substance  as 
spiritual  understanding,  and  therein  grow  to  be  pure  in  heart 
and  wise  in  our  expressions. 

The  tables  of  this  head  of  the  law  are  very  important  to  us 
and  should  be  studied  earnestly,  for  righteousness  is  the  combi- 
nation of  holiness  and  harmony.  We  already  know  that  love  is 
the  law,  but  this  fact  gives  us  the  way  of  the  law,  and  judg- 
ment, honesty,  justice,  as  counterparts  of  righteousness  are  equal 
to  righteousness  as  the  law. 

The  clearer  concept  of  these  ideas  that  we  can  get,  free  from 
mortal  imaginations,  the  nearer  will  we  come  to  demonstrating 
the  law,  therefore  it  is  very  essential  that  we  do  our  work  on  the 
preceding  pages  carefully  and  thoroughly.  We  must  strive  to 
get  rid  of  our  worldly  habits  and  false  customs  and  learn  to  put 
in  their  place  the  good  things  of  the  law.  We  must,  however, 
know  that  judgment  is  not  a  mortal  choice  between  good  and 
evil,  but  is  the  prevailing  of  right  without  consideration  of  evil. 
Honesty  is  not  governed  or  limited  by  mortal  opinions  of  it,  as 
a  state  of  being.  Justice  is  one  universal  law  of  absolute  perfec- 
tion and  is  not  contaminated  with  mortal  compromises.     Justice 


158  The  Christ-Law 

as  the  perfection  of  the   Christ  law  is   not   subject  to  license, 
special  privilege,  and  that  at  a  price. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with 
the  Star. 

Tables  in  the  Fourth  Point  of  the  Star  of  Righteousness. 

TABLE  one. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Truth  equals  life*s  active 
Righteousness. 

TABLE  TWO. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Righteousness  equals  truth's 
perfect  Judgment. 

The  love-substanqe  of  substantial  Righteousness  equals  love's 
substantial  Honesty. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Righteousness  equals  life's 
active  Justice. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Righteousness,  in  the  third  revelation  of 
Mind,  are  Judgment,  Honesty,  Justice.  These  three  ideas  rep- 
resent Righteousness. 

TABLE  THREE. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Judgment  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Rationality. 

The  life-action  of  active  Judgment  equals  life's  active  Choice. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Judgment  equals  truth's  perfect 
Reason. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Judgment,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Rationality,  Choice,  Reason.  These  three  ideas  represent  Judg- 
ment. 

TABLE    FOUR. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Honesty  equals  truth's  perfect 
Integrity. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Honesty  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Morality. 


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The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Honesty  equals  life's 
active  Uprightness. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  developed  meaning  of  the  Christ- 
Mind  of  Honesty,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are  Integrity, 
Morality,  Uprightness.    These  three  ideas  represent  Honesty. 

TABLE  FIVE. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Justice  equals  life's  active  Fair- 
ness. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Justice  equals  truth's  perfect 
Equity. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Justice  equals  love's  substantial 
Justification. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  developed  meaning  of  the  Christ- 
Mind  of  Justice,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are  Fairness, 
Equity,  Justification.     These  three  ideas  represent  Justice. 

In  these  tables  is  the  law  of  the  perfect  Christ-Mind  expressed, 
and  are  to  be  studied  until  our  conscience  becomes  moulded  in 
their  image  and  likeness.  That  we  may  overcome  the  evil  sug- 
gestions which  oppose  them  through  every  material  appearance. 

These  states  of  consciousness  as  states  of  spiritual  being  can- 
not be  too  carefully  committed  to  memory,  and  then  practiced 
until  we  become  proficient  in  their  use.  The  more  skilled  in 
their  application  to  our  problem  of  life  that  we  become  the 
nearer  to  right  living  will  we  attain. 

The  Relation  of  Ideas  in  the  Point  of  Righteousness. 

Now  come  the  relations  of  the  ideas  within  the  fourth  point 
of  the  Star  and  how  to  study  them  so  that  they  may  be  fixed  in 
consciousness,  also  how  to  realize  their  power  so  that  we  can 
defend  ourselves  against  evil  thoughts. 

Righteousness  is  the  fourth  stage  of  spiritual  perception  and 
development;  and  is  the  first  concept  of  love  as  good.  For  right 
is  the  beginning  of  our  knowing  of  God  as  good.  Having 
gained  the  concept  of  one  spiritual  right  uncontaminated  with 
mortality  in  any  of  its  imaginations  of  evil,  then  we  are  able  to 


l60  The  Christ-Law 

gain  the  next  higher  concept  of  wisdom  as  the  love  substance  of 
life^  for  wisdom  is  the  aggregate  of  all  right  or  perfect  ideas  in 
the  Christ-law.  When  we  have  progressed  this  far  we  are  able 
and  qualified  to  understand  the  love  of  love  as  holiness,  the 
third  and  highest  stage  of  our  concept  of  right  as  absolute  law. 

Returning  to  the  point  of  righteousness,  we  find  that  judg- 
ment is  thp  life-action  of  righteousness;  which  does  not  consider 
wrong  in  any  way. 

Judgment  is  the  law  of  right  in  its  spiritual  prevailing,  and 
with  this  concept  we  are  prepared  to  receive  in  consciousness  the 
fact  of  understanding  and  gain  its  perfect  being ;  but  without  this 
understanding  of  right  as  a  perfect  law  we  are  not  able  to  realize 
truth.  This  is  because  the  allegiance  to  two  standards  of  right 
and  wrong  will  confuse  us  and  prevent  understanding.  When 
we  have  gained  an  understanding  through  knowing  judgment  as 
one  prevailing  right  then  we  cannot  help  but  be  loyal  to  this  pre- 
vailing law. 

The  association  of  the  following  words  are  to  reveal  the  stages 
or  states  of  understanding  loyalty,  that  is  its  life-love-truth- 
meaning. 

Honesty  the  love  of  righteousness  is  the  substance  of  right, 
and  not  until  we  gain  the  love  of  the  law  of  right  and  at  the  same 
time  attain  the  realization  of  its  attractive  power  to  hold  us  in 
perfection  can  we  be  said  to  be  honest.  This  love  of  right  or  good 
is  honesty,  and  having  gained  its  presence  within  conscience,  we 
surely  have  a  realization  of  the  law,  and  are  prepared  to  serve 
the  law  through  this  state  of  spiritual  consciousness. 

These  ideas  are  the  second  ones  in  the  fourth,  seventh  and 
first  points  of  the  Star,  and  express  our  growing  perception  of 
honesty,  as  honest  consciousness  of  service. 

Next  we  find  that  justice,  the  truth  of  rightousness,  is  the 
perfected  state  of  right.  It  being  all,  then  there  is  no  more  nor 
less  than  all,  as  we  grasp  this  fact  we  are  able  to  perceive  and 
understand  that  which  was  made  perfect  and  finished,  for  the 
law  made  all  that  was  made.  Here  we  gain  a  concept  of  crea- 
tion as  the  next  word  in  association,  and  reach  out  further  to 
find  that  which  was  created  to  be  loveliness.     For  love  as  the 


Righteousness  161 

law  is  all  that  ever  was  created;  love  is  all  creation^  made  active 
in  life  and  perfected  in  truth. 

Out  of  unity  and  freedom  comes  the  concept  of  a  prevailing 
right  of  judgment,  out  of  freedom  and  judgment  is  the  con- 
sciousness of  honesty  given,  and  out  of  judgment  and  honesty  is 
justice  as  the  truth  of  righteousness  revealed  in  consciousness. 

Out  of  rejoicing  and  health  comes  rationality;  from  health 
and  rationality  we  get  choice  as  a  prevailing  power  of  good ;  from 
rationality  and  choice  is  reason  revealed;  from  choice  and  reason 
comes  integrity;  reason  and  integrity  give  forth  morality;  and 
from  integrity  and  morality  is  uprightness  understood; 
from  morality  and  uprightness  comes  fairness ;  and  from  upright- 
ness and  fairness  comes  equity;  from  fairness  and  equity  is  given 
forth  justification  as  the  life-action  of  justice. 

Justice  as  a  thought  of  perfection  is  the  idea  and  power  of 
Mind  which  seals  our  consciousness  and  makes  us  to  know ;  that  is, 
know  justice  and  righteousness  as  one  state  of  being  in  unity 
with  the  Christ-law. 

Reason  seals  our  concept  of  judgment,  for  reason  is  the  posses- 
sion of  the  concept  of  love,  as  good ;  that  which  compels  a  know- 
ing because  it  is  in  possession. 

Uprightness  seals  our  concept  of  honesty,  because  it  is  per- 
fected right  and  has  the  substance  of  love,  which  known  as  up- 
rightness equals  honesty  as  the  love  of  right. 

Justification  is  that  which  seals  our  concept  of  justice,  for  it 
is  the  life-action  of  truth  which  demonstrates  its  being,  and  it 
makes  us  to  know  because  it  lives  and  compels  action  in  reality, 
a  state  of  being  which  we  cannot  deny. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  the  Law  of  Righteousness. 
The    Fourth   Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20,  2  and  8,  we  read  (Because)  "I  am  the  Lord 
thy  God  which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out 
of  the  house  of  bondage."  Out  of  the  bondage  which  comes 
through  allegiance  to  the  deceiving  senses,  which  constantly  de- 
mand that  we  serve  all  manner  of  worldly  laws;  therefore  be- 
cause we  are  delivered  we  shall: — 


162  The  Christ-Law 

"Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy/* 

The  living  state  of  righteousness  as  a  law  is  the  time  of  the 
Sabbath.  It  is  the  conscious  combination  of  holiness  and  har- 
mony and  we  shall  not  forget  to  keep  this  sacred  day  or  time  of 
appointment  in  special  service  to  the  law,  Ishat  we  may  realize 
each  seventh  day  a  greater  revelation  of  our  growth  in  the  law*s 
manifestation. 

Jesus  kept  this  day  aj  a  time  of  special  communion  with  the 
Father,  as  a  time  to  go  apart  from  the  strife  of  worldly  things 
as  material  experiences,  that  he  might  rest  from  their  fury  and 
give  his  whole  time  to  the  expression  of  the  law  in  righteousness, 
and  therein  be  present  with  God  and  absent  from  the  body. 

This  consciousness  of  righteousness  as  the  love  of  truth,  is 
that  which  sanctifies  and  purifies  us  and  also  that  which  fulfills 
the  requirements  of  the  fourth  commandment,  which  means  to 
remember  the  finished  and  sanctified  law  of  holiness  and  har- 
mony, and  find  peace  therein. 

The  Fourth  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5 :6,  we  read  the  fourth  beatitude  which  refers  to  this 
point  of  righteousness  as  a  head  of  the  law: — 

"Blessed  are  they  who  do  hunger  and  thirst  after  righteous- 
ness: for  they  shall  be  filled." 

This  consciousness  of  the  love  of  truth  will  certainly  reveal 
the  blessing  intended  in  this  beatitude.  It  is  because  of  the 
hunger  that  we  are  prepared  to  receive  the  blessing  and  able 
to  be  filled  with  understanding,  for  through  declaring  and  living 
the  law  shall  we  be  made  like  it.  Herein  shall  we  find  all  true 
knowledge  of  good  and  right.  Because  the  love  of  truth  as  the 
hunger  and  thirst  after  righteousness  will  surely  keep  us  in  the 
honest  service  of  the  God  of  Love. 

The    Lord^s   Prayer. 

In  Matt.  6:10.  We  read  the  fourth  section  of  the  Lord's 
prayer : — 

"Thy  will  be  done  in  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven.*' 


Righteousness  163 

God's  will  is  that  we  should  love  the  truth;  that  is,  know  the 
law  of  His  perfect  righteousness,  for  this  action  of  mind  will 
bring  about  the  presence  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  within  us. 
Because  righteousness  as  the  rightness  of  right  is  one  perfect  law 
of  good  or  love,  then  we  cannot  honestly  and  sincerely  love  truth 
and  escape  the  effect  of  the  law's  presence  within  our  conscience 
to  perfect  it,  and  His  will  shall  be  done  here  and  now  while  we 
are  in  this  sense  experience  within  this  world. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt,  6:1,  Jesus  begins  his  discourse  of  the  law  of  one 
right  by  calling  to  our  minds  the  result  of  the  choice  of  being 
honest.  He  starts  out  with  a  caution  and  warns  us  to  seek  a 
unity  with  Spirit;  that  is,  to  get  in  touch  with  conscience  at 
once,  and  to  avoid  material  things.  Because  we  are  to  worship 
in  spirit,  in  the  secret  place  of  the  soul  or  conscience,  and  not 
in  the  presence  of  mortals  who  defile  the  law. 

This  matter  of  worship  is  a  subject  both  sacred  and  holy  and 
is  between  ourselves  alone  and  our  Father,  and  to  be  real  and 
true  to  Him  must  be  secret  with  the  door  to  outer  darkness  closed. 
Jesus  tells  us  that  we  get  our  reward  from  the  source  of  our 
seeking,  for  really  we  are  just  that  and  no  different  from  what 
we  are  in  intent  of  heart. 

When  we  give  forth  the  good  gifts  which  our  Father  has  given 
unto  us,  it  is  to  be  done  under  the  present  supervision  of  the 
Father's  knowledge  and  approval,  in  exact  accordance  with  His 
dictation  in  heart  and  not  according  to  our  own  desires,  likes, 
wishes  and  interests.  Our  reward  is  a  conscious  unity  with  the 
law  in  peace  and  harmony,  wherein  rebuke  or  fear  is  not  known, 
and  this  reward  will  surely  manifest  righteousness. 

In  verse  5  we  read,  ''And  when  thou  prayest."  That  is  when 
we  declare  the  law  of  God's  will  of  perfect  righteousness,  and 
express  it  as  a  soul  experience  of  His  right  idea  entities,  it  shall 
not  be  done  hypocritically,  that  is  without  the  kitent  of  heart  of 
honest  meaning  of  good  and  right,  for  if  we  pray  through  sense 
consideration,  the  soul  cannot  be  therein,  and  our  prayer  is  but 
the  hypnotism  of  sense  suggestion  and  there  is  no  reward  save 
confusion.    Again  our  reward  is  just  that  which  we  seek  in  our 


164  The  Christ-Law 

intent  of  heart,  be  it  either  sense  deceit  or  honest  love  of  the 
law. 

Then  Jesus  tells  us  how  to  pray.  We  are  told  to  go  into  the 
secret  place  of  the  Most  High,  into  the  secret  chamber  of  the 
soul  or  conscience  and  to  close  the  door  to  all  material  sensa- 
tions, which  testify  only  of  the  things  of  outer  darkness;  that  we 
may  be  present  with  the  Spirit  of  the  law  of  righteousness  as 
holiness  and  harmony  combined,  and  therein  commune  with  this 
law  in  undefiled  understanding,  that  we  may  know  the  ways  of 
infinite  love  and  good  in  its  purity,  and  through  this  knowing  we 
shall  receive  our  reward. 

Jesus  says  that  we  are  not  to  pray  with  a  noise  of  the  mouth 
only,  but  with  soul  realizations  of  the  perfect  ideas  as  states  of 
spiritual  being  in  consciousness  which  will  be  our  reward.  For 
the  law  already  knows  that  we  have  need  of  these  states  of  being 
and  that  we  must  express  them. 

Next  follows  the  full  recital  of  the  law  given  in  the  Lord's 
prayer.  It  is  all  summed  up  in  the  living  of  the  law  of  right;  he 
says  that  if  we  do  not  repent  from  transgressing  the  law  of 
love  and  forgive  our  neighbor  his  transgression  of  the  law  of 
love  towards  us^  then  there  is  nothing  done  by  us  deserving  of 
reward  and  that  we  shall  not  receive  any.  He  then  says  that 
the  way  to  get  righteous  is  to  do  the  works  of  righteousness  as  a 
perfect  law  of  right  being.  In  this  doing  we  shall  find  our 
reward. 

In  verse  16  he  says  that  when  we  fast  we  must  be  honest 
about  it,  not  as  the  hypocrites  are  in  deception  that  they  may 
receive  reward  from  men,  for  this  honor  from  men  is  all  the 
reward  that  they  shall  receive,  but  for  us  to  do  our  fasting  in 
the  presence  of  our  Father  secretly,  with  our  face  washed,  and 
in  cleanliness  of  soul  that  we  may  be  acceptable  to  Him. 

This  whole  discourse  is  one  of  honesty  as  the  love  of  right- 
eousness which  in  turn  is  the  love  of  truth.  The  ideas  of  judg- 
ment, honesty,  justice  are  the  counterparts  of  the  law  of  right- 
eousness and  are  all  to  be  used  to  express  righteousness,  and 
therein  manifest  the  love  of  truth  as  the  first  head  of  the  law 
in  the  realm  of  Truth. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

PRINCIPLE 

The  Truth   of   Truth. 

The  Absolute  Spiritual  Law  of  Perfection. 

Principle  is  the  highest  concept  of  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit 
which  we  as  the  children  of  Mind  can  have.  It  includes  all  of 
the  other  heads  of  the  law  of  spiritual  being  in  one  perfected 
state. 

This  concept  of  principle  is  revealed  unto  us  through  nine 
stages  of  spiritual  growth  from  obedience  to  principle.  These 
must  not  be  taken  from  the  mortal  sense  interpretation  of  things, 
which  comes  through  an  imperfected  sense-concept  and  is  very 
unreliable,  but  must  be  taken  through  the  one  spiritual  interpre- 
tation of  immortal  law  as  the  right  of  good  which  is  found  alone 
in  conscience. 

Principle  is  the  beginning  and  also  the  end  of  all  real  and 
true  understanding  as  spiritual  knowledge;  all  of  that  which  is 
apart  from  mortal  imagination.  It  is  the  one  perfected  law 
without  any  omission;  it  is  the  center  wherein  we  awake  to  con- 
sciousness, and  is  the  beginning  of  our  certain  knowing  of  God 
as  a  perfect  law.  This  concept  culminates  eventually  in  infinite 
circumference  as  the  all  inclusive  body  of  ideas  which  are  states 
of  spiritual  being  within  the  law,  and  which  compose  the  law, 
and  these  are  again  but  the  manifest  center. 

Principle  is  an  endless  circle  of  active,  substantial  and  per- 
fected spiritual  being ;  and  is  a  never  ending  existence  of  re- 
vealed mental  activity.  A  true  spiritual  perception  of  principle 
is  gained  by  us  through  a  progressive  understanding  of  infinite 
creation,  which  will  occupy  our  time  and  efforts  for  all  eternity. 
Therefore  we  need  none  of  us  be  in  a  hurry  to  get  it  all  here 


166  The  Christ-Law 

and  now;  and  it  will  be  well  to  remember  that  haste  makes  waste 
and  manifests  little  progress. 

Principle  includes  all  manner  of  true  knowledge  which  is  the 
spiritual  perception  of  the  revealed  things  of  God.  Those  things 
which  are  given  to  the  children  of  Israel  under  the  nine  heads  of 
the  law^  which  are  but  the  divisions  of  the  one  complete  law^  ar- 
ranged in  an  orderly  way  of  progressive  understanding.  That 
we  may  grow  systematically  and  surely  into  a  perfect  likeness  of 
the  law^  and  learn  to  give  this  one  right  interpretation  of  things. 
For  we  must  gain  an  understanding  of  God  as  good^  and  good  as 
the  law  of  life-action^  love-substance,  truth-perfection  only. 

The  brief  and  limited  way  in  which  the  following  table  is  ex- 
plained is  because  of  its  far  reaching  power  and  inclusiveness  of 
all  being;  it  would  take  volumes  to  do  it  justice,  so  a  mere  refer- 
ence only  is  here  made  with  the  hope  that  the  future  will  reveal 
it  in  perfection.  It  is  about  those  things  which  mortals  so  per- 
sistently call  material,  but  which  are  in  their  true  being,  spir- 
itual, and  must  so  be  considered. 

This  one  thing  we  must  receive  in  consciousness  at  the  start, 
and  hold  fast  to  it  all  through  this  presentation  of  the  law, 
namely,  that  the  law  is  spiritual  and  considered  from  that  stand- 
point only.  No  interpretations  from  the  standpoint  of  the  animal 
sense-mind  or  from  the  world  as  matter  through  this  sense-mind 
can  be  given  to  a  spiritual  law. 

1.  Obedience  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Physics,  as  the  life-action  of  love-substance. 

2.  Holiness  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Ethics,  as  the  love-substance  of  love-substance. 

3.  Harmony  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Music,  as  the  truth-perfection  of  love-substance. 

4.  Righteousness  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science 
of  Logic,  as  the  love-substance  of  truth-perfection. 

5.  Principle  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Philosophy  as  the  truth-perfection  of  truth-perfection. 

6.  Dominion  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science 
of  Mathematics,  as  the  life-action  of  truth-perfection. 


Principle  167 

7.  Intelligence  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science 
of  Metaphysics,  as  the  truth-perfection  of  life-action. 

8.  Being  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Ontology,  as  the  life-action  of  life-action. 

9.  Wisdom  as  a  spiritual  law  is  expressed  in  the  science  of 
Psychology,  as  the  love-substance  of  life-action. 

These  nine  heads  cover  the  field  of  all  science  and  include  all 
branches  of  these  heads,  each  one  of  which  must  have  three  main 
divisions  according  to  spiritual  law. 

A  brief  explanation  of  the  preceding  table  is  herein  given,  with 
the  hope  that  the  future  will  reveal  its  full  revelation  in  perfec- 
tion for  the  use  of  men  and  to  their  very  great  advantage  in  truth 
and  right. 

Beginning  with  Obedience  as  our  first  concept  of  spiritual  law. 
Herein  we  find  ourselves  born  in  the  flesh,  given  these  fleshly  in- 
stincts of  sensation  of  matter  as  a  false  concept;  and  in  which 
we  abide  under  the  bondage  of  the  lusts  of  mortality  as  some- 
thing to  be  destroyed,  hence  not  worthy  of  life  and  keeping  for 
its  profit  is  nothingness.  Nevertheless  we  are  commanded  to 
come  up  out  of  the  darkness  of  this  material  interpretation  of 
evil  in  Egypt,  and  to  perceive  the  true  spiritual  interpretation 
of  things  as  a  perfect  law  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth- 
perfection,,  and  it  is  in  this  interpretation  that  these  explanations 
are  given,  with  the  hope  that  the  reader  will  perceive  the  asso- 
ciation. 

Obedience  is  revealed  to  us  mortals  as  the  science  of  Physics, 
which  is  an  account  of  the  action  of  spiritual  substance  all 
through  the  universe.  We  know  that  as  a  law  it  is  perfect  and 
never  fails,  even  if  our  mortal  concept  is  erroneous  and  unable  to 
reveal  the  spiritual.  This  understanding  within  the  soul  of  per- 
fect law  in  action  is  to  constitute  our  knowledge  of  what  obedi- 
ence is  in  its  perfection.  And  it  cannot  be  defiled  by  the  mortal 
concept  of  destructive   and  imperfect  material  conditions. 

When  we  discover  this  most  wonderful  law  of  perfection  in 
soul  expression  of  things  we  become  very  cognizant  of  its  mighty 
power,  and  of  the  fact  that  it  is  high  above  any  power  or  under- 
standing which  we  possess. 


168  The  Christ-Law 

Even  if  our  concept  of  the  universe  has  as  yet  not  risen  above 
the  false  interpretation  of  matter,  still  we  perceive  through  this 
haze  of  sense  suggestion  that  all  is  spiritual  law  and  that  it  is 
good,  or  God.  In  this  way  we  get  our  concept  of  good  or  love 
as  God  from  observing  the  perfection  of  the  law  of  obedience, 
which  begins  in  physical  appearance,  but  soon  through  reason 
turns  to  the  law  of  fact  and  truth. 

Through  the  science  of  physics  as  a  means  of  understanding 
infallible  law,  we  learn  that  it  fills  all  space  and  presence  only 
when  interpreted  from  the  spiritual  standpoint,  then  it  becomes 
spiritual  law,  and  is  expressed  in  ideas  as  states  of  law  which 
fill  all  space  as  infinite  Mind. 

Now  in  just  the  same  way  that  we  have  gained  a  concept  of 
obedience,  through  the  science  of  physics  as  a  start  in  the  under- 
standing of  spiritual  law,  so  also,  we  have  gained  a  concept  of 
good  as  love ;  for  they  go  together  and  cannot  be  separated.  Now 
love  as  holiness  represents  the  base  or  foundation  of  the  science 
of  ethics,  the  substance  of  substance. 

Therefore,  it  may  be  seen  that  we  go  from  physics  to  ethics 
in  the  same  way  that  we  go  from  obedience  to  holiness,  for  it 
is  the  same  one  thing  but  expressed  in  different  terms.  Do  not 
forget  the  spiritual  interpretation  for  the  material  will  cause  you 
confusion.  , 

When  we  combine  the  active  law  of  obedience  in  physics  with 
the  substantial  law  of  ethics  as  holiness,  we  find  harmony  present 
as  a  song  of  the  soul  in  the  science  of  music,  true  substance.  This 
harmony  as  a  song  of  the  soul  is  perceived  in  physical  color, 
symmetry,  form,  and  the  like,  but  more  especially  in  the  concept 
of  law  as  spiritual  form,  rulings,  etc. 

In  this  way  we  can  see  clearly  that  obedience  as  physics  com- 
bined with  holiness  as  ethics  is  bound  to  produce  true  substance 
as  harmony,  and  that  it  is  real  and  true  in  its  spiritual  concept 
only. 

The  combination  of  holiness  as  the  science  of  ethics,  with 
harmony  as  the  science  of  music,  (not  the  noise  made  by  mortals 
but  the  song  of  spiritual  love  in  the  soul,)  will  bring  us  in 
touch  with  the  science  of  logic  as  the  law  of  right  thoughts  or 


Principle  i69 

righteousness^  which  is  the  very  substance  of  truth.  Logic  as 
the  science  of  right  thoughts^  those  of  holiness  made  perfect 
in  harmony  is  our  way  of  righteousness. 

Therefore  a  combination  of  ethics  and  logic  as  the  states  of 
being  of  holiness  and  harmony  show  the  relation  of  these  three 
states  of  spiritual  being  and  through  them  we  can  surely  get 
right. 

The  law  of  music  within  the  soul  called  harmony  as  the  per- 
fected substance  of  love^  combined  with  the  science  of  logic  as 
the  law  of  right  thoughts^  will  reveal  unto  us  another  science  as  a 
perfect  law^  for  it  opens  the  way  for  a  concept  of  one  truth,  which 
is  principle  or  the  science  of  philosophy. 

This  concept  of  one  perfection  as  a  supreme  law  of  all  things 
spiritual,  which  are  the  things  real  and  immortal,  is  the  ultimate 
of  all  understanding,  and  is  supreme  above  all  knowledge,  hold- 
ing it  in  perfection. 

When  we  combine  righteousness  as  the  science  of  logic  with 
principle  as  the  science  of  philosophy,  we  have  revealed  the 
power  of  dominion  as  the  science  of  mathematics,  that  is,  a  perfect 
law  of  infallible  controlling  power  which  we  may  use,  and  pre- 
vail through  its  power  of  perfection  in  action. 

Principle  as  the  science  of  philosophy  the  truth  of  perfec- 
tion, when  combined  with  dominion  in  the  science  of  mathe- 
matics as  a  prevailing  law,  will  reveal  and  demonstrate  intelli- 
gence as  the  supreme  state  of  Mind  in  action,  through  the  science 
of  metaphysics,  for  the  base  of  metaphysics  is  in  intelligence. 
It  is  that  all  inclusiveness  of  right  thoughts  perfected  and  put 
in  action  to  express  the  one  law  of  life,  love,  truth. 

Again  in  the  same  way  that  dominion  is  combined  with  in- 
telligence, is  also  the  science  of  mathematics  combined  with  the 
science  of  metaphysics  to  manifest  a  real  law  of  absolute  being, 
that  being  as  spiritual  mentality  which  expresses  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection.  This  state  of  spiritual  being  is 
represented  by  the  science  of  ontology,  not  from  the  material 
interpretation  but  from  the  spiritual  true  state  of  being,  which 
is  all  that  can  be  proven,  and  proven  to  be  good  and  perfect. 


170  The  Christ-Law 

Again  will  intelligence  as  the  science  of  metaphysics  com- 
bined with  ontology  as  the  science  of  being,  give  us  the  concept 
of  wisdom  as  the  true  science  of  psychology,  as  the  soul  ex- 
perience and  expression  of  perfect  states  of  spiritual  being  or 
existence.  This  concept  of  psychology  must  not  be  confounded 
with  that  of  the  sense  and  soul  founded  upon  two  opposing 
standards,  which  must  certainly  defeat  understanding.  We  are 
obliged  to  figure  from  the  standpoint  of  spiritual  expression  of 
the  soul  in  its  experiences  with  God*s  state  of  perfect  being. 

We  have  to  make  one  more  comparison  to  complete  the  circle 
and  form  a  combination  of  ontology  as  the  science  of  being, 
spiritual  being,  and  that  of  psychology  as  the  science  of  wisdom 
expressed  in  the  soul,  not  of  mortal  sense;  which  brings  us 
back  to  physics,  spiritualized,  or  the  science  of  obedience  to  all 
of  God's  wonderful  law  of  perfection. 

After  the  reader  has  gone  over  these  relations  a  few  times 
they  will  clear  up  in  his  consciousness,  and  will  assume  their 
proper  place  and  position  also  relation  to  each  other.  But 
it  cannot  be  too  emphatically  stated  that  the  mortal  sense- 
mind's  opinions  about  this  subject  has  nothing  whatever  to  do 
with  what  God  in  his  wisdom  made.  These  relations  must  be 
considered  from  one  standpoint  only  and  wholly,  and  that  must 
be  perfectly  spiritual,  else  we  will  be  confused  and  not  under- 
stand. 

These  sciences  are  to  be  used  by  us  in  the  progress  of  our 
daily  lives  and  it  must  have  been  intended  by  our  maker  that 
we  should  know  them  in  their  perfection  and  use  them  each  in 
its  special  capacity  and  office  to  work  out  our  problem  of  getting 
right,  and  in  reaching  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  which  must  be 
this  perfect  knowledge  within  our  soul's  expression. 

Let  us  now  take  up  the  relation  of  these  sciences  one  to  an- 
other in  each  realm  of  life,  love,  truth,  and  go  over  it  in  its  stages 
of  progressive  advancement  through  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection. 

Beginning  with  physics  as  obedience,  we  find  an  immediate 
demand  for  mathematics  as  dominion,  they  go  together  and  very 
little  progress  can  be  attained  without  this   combination,  when 


Principle  171 

we  have  received  the  proper  instruction  through  the  combination 
of  these  two,  then  are  we  ready  to  understand  ontology  as 
being;  real,  true,  spiritual  existence. 

These  represent  the  three  life-action  sciences  in  their  three 
stages  of  perception  and  gained  understanding,  with  the  ultimate 
truth  of  existence,  as  a  final  and  satisfying  state  of  spiritual 
being. 

Next  comes  three  more  states  of  spiritual  perception  on  a 
much  higher  plain,  and  they  demand  that  we  have  first  obtained 
the  understanding  of  the  three  in  the  preceding  realms. 

Beginning  again  with  logic  as  the  science  of  perfect  thought  or 
soul  expression,  we  find  that  there  is  a  demand  for  an  understand- 
ing about  this  soul's  experience  of  spiritual  things,  expressed  in 
the  science  of  psychology,  and  not  until  we  have  mastered  this 
association  and  relation  between  these  two  states  of  spiritual 
being  as  perfect  sciences,  will  we  be  worthy  and  qualified  to 
advance  to  an  understanding  of  ethics  as  the  law  or  science  of 
holiness  as  the  love  of  love. 

These  sciences  represent  the  substance  of  all  being  which  is 
love,  and  an  understanding  of  these  is  gained  scientifically,  surely 
and  in  an  absolute  way,  through  this  progressive  procedure  of 
three  stages  of  attainment,  and  in  no  other  way,  for  there  is  one 
truth  and  one  way  of  the  Christ  law,  and  he  that  follows  it  will 
surely  win  even  by  our  Master's  word. 

The  last  stages  of  attainment  of  spiritual  being  are  represented 
in  the  sciences  of  metaphysics  as  intelligence,  soul  expressions 
of  God's  perfect  law  of  life,  love,  truth.  We  begin  here  after 
having  gained  the  foregoing  stages  in  life,  and  love,  and  imme- 
diately we  find  a  need  of  that  harmonious  song  of  the  soul  in  its 
perfect  love  song  of  peace  and  joy,  for  metaphysics  without  the 
song  of  love  in  the  soul,  as  expressed  in  the  science  of  music  or 
harmony  is  worthless  and  of  none  effect.  These  two  come  to- 
gether the  one  to  help  the  other  and  make  a  complete  whole, 
which  is  to  give  us  an  understanding  so  pure,  as  a  perfect  soul  ex- 
pression, that  we  are  eligible  and  qualified  to  perceive  God.  We 
perceive  the  mighty  heights  of  perfect  Principle  in  all  of  its 
glory,  which  is  the  true  philosophy  as  a  science  of  good  and  is 


172  The  Christ-Law 

the  supreme  law  of  God's  perfection^  which  is  to  us  the  Father- 
Mind  or  Spirit. 

From  the  foregoing  we  can  easily  understand  that  each  head 
of  the  law  is  contained  within  all  of  the  others^  for  it  is  one 
indivisible  whole. 

The  essence  of  none  of  them  is  ever  omitted  even  in  one  perfect 
idea  entity,  for  God  is  represented  in  each  through  the  mighty 
power  of  principle  as  a  supreme  law  of  perfection.  Principle 
is  the  all  inclusive  law  which  is  supreme  and  master  in  all  and 
above  all,  holding  each  and  every  one  in  perfection. 

These  associations  and  comparisons  of  the  sciences  which 
we  have  studied  for  centuries,  largely  from  the  standpoint  of 
good  and  evil,  sense  and  soul,  in  an  effort  to  account  for  a  lie, 
must  now  be  turned  to  the  spiritual  in  the  perfection  of  its  inter- 
pretation, that  we  may  find  truth  and  abide  therein  in  peace. 

The  application  of  a  perfect  science  for  the  purpose  of  ac- 
counting for  a  lie,  is  unworthy  of  our  mind-action.  The  effort  to 
discover  a  law  in  falsity  as  among  changeable  material  con- 
ditions, is  unworthy  of  further  time  on  our  part.  The  search 
among  material  appearances  and  suggestion,  which  have  no  more 
substance  than  a  suggestion,  in  order  to  find  a  law  and  a  truth,  is 
unlawful  use  of  our  God  given  gift  of  thought-action.  Because 
we  were  explicitly  commanded  to  walk  in  the  law  of  spiritual 
existence  alone,  and  to  perfect  our  being  in  this  law's  teaching, 
for  it  alone  is  perfect. 

Therefore  let  us  abide  in  faithful  service  to  the  one  Christ-law 
and  know  the  life,  love,  truth  of  all  things  alone. 

Principle  in  Absolute  Control. 

Principle  as  the  absolute  power  of  revelation,  expresses  the 
one  supreme  law  of  perfection  and  includes  every  true  and 
perfect  state  of  spiritual  existence.  These  states  are  expressed 
within  the  soul  or  conscience  alone,  and  constitute  our  real 
spiritual  selfhood  in  reflection  of  perfect  principle.  Intuitively 
and  in  other  ways  we  know  that  principle  as  a  perfect  law  of 
creation  and  revelation  already  contains  every  possible  phase  of 
Mind  action  as   expressed  being.    Whether  it  has   as  yet  been 


Principle  173 

revealed  to  us  or  not  matters  little^  for  we  know  that  it  is  there 
within  principle  and  that  it  will  remain  there  always  as  an  in- 
destructible law. 

Jesus  said  that  eye  had  not  seen  neither  ear  heard  all  of  the 
wonderful  things  of  good  which  is  in  the  keeping  of  the  power 
of  principle^  ready  to  be  revealed  to  those  who  prove  themselves 
worthy  through  a  love  of  the  good.  That  part  of  creation  which 
we  mortals  behold  is  very  insignificant  in  comparison  to  that 
which  is  to  be  revealed  to  the  worthy  and  well  qualified.  Through 
sense  it  is  not  revealed  at  all^  but  through  soul  we  get  a  glimpse 
now  and  then  of  life  as  action^  of  love  as  the  substance  of  the 
good  which  we  have  been  searching  for^  then  truth  comes  unto  us 
in  its  convincing  way  to  tell  us  of  God,  and  in  this  way  do  we  get 
a  glimpse  of  Spirit  through  the  soul. 

When  we  learn  to  look  through  the  soul  and  see  the  life-love- 
truth-meaning  of  things  then  will  God  come  near  unto  us,  and  we 
shall  perceive  the  things  spiritual  divided  from  the  things  ma- 
terial. 

Principle  is  the  perfect  guide  for  mind-action  as  spiritual  life 
in  being  or  existence,  and  as  a  power  of  law  within  the  Spirit  of 
truth  it  will  surely  lead  us  into  all  truth,  and  teach  us  all  things 
whatsoever  the  Christ  has  to  tell  unto  his  children.  This  law  of 
principle  is  the  comforting  power  of  real  and  true  conviction, 
which  cannot  be  overcome  by  error.  It  does  not  proclaim  itself 
in  personal  leadership  among  mortals,  in  an  effort  to  divide  our 
allegiance  to  the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ.  For  it  teaches  us  to 
honor  the  Christ  only,  that  is  perfectly.  It  will  not  speak  of 
itself,  nor  allow  others  to  do  so,  but  it  will  speak  of  the  Christ, 
for  it  is  of  the  Christ,  and  his  name  alone  is  to  be  exalted. 

This  law  of  the  life-love-truth-meaning  will  open  our  soul's 
understanding  and  reveal  all  good  things  to  come;  this  law  is  of 
a  certain  comforting  power  because  it  can  be  trusted.  It  is  to  re- 
main with  us  forever,  and  more,  because  it  lives  we  shall  live 
also  in  its  perfection  and  find  peace  for  our  souls. 

Principle  when  applied  to  all  of  our  thinking  will  reveal  truth 
unto  us  and  enable  us  to  live  right  and  also  to  do  right,  and 
know  it. 


174  The  Christ-Law 

How  TO  Know  Principle. 

Now  just  how  am  I  to  discover  the  soul's  expression  of  the 
things  of  Principle  and  understand  them  as  the  law  of  truth  in 
which  I  am  to  live? 

First  by  establishing  within  consciousness  the  Christ-meaning 
of  principle  which  is  as  follows:  The  love-substance  of  principle 
is  expressed  in  science^  the  truth-perfection  is  expressed  in  law^ 
while  the  life-action  is  expressed  in  order. 

Beginning  with  science  in  our  understanding  just  what  prin- 
ciple represents^  we  find  that  science  is  the  substantial  fact  of 
principle^  that  all-inclusive  knowledge  which  constitutes  the 
body  of  principle.  This  consists  of  a  power  of  instruction  given 
according  to  an  absolute  and  demonstrable  way  of  procedure. 
The  source  of  science  is  from  honesty  and  justice^  instructing 
us  according  to  a  law  of  absolute  perfection^  in  which  mortality 
does  nothing  whatsoever.  Science  is  a  perfect  power  of  enlighten- 
ment through  truth  and  to  whatsoever  subject  this  law  is  applied 
it  will  reveal  the  good  therein  in  an  orderly  way  and  without 
mistake. 

Next  comes  law  which  is  the  perfected  state  of  science^  for 
science  is  perfected  because  of  the  power  of  law's  fixedness  in 
governing  all  things  of  truth.  Law  is  the  power  of  perfection 
against  which  nothing  can  prevail  to  change^  for  it  is  supreme 
in  itself^  it  controls  everything  good  and  compels  it  to  be  obe- 
dient that  there  may  be  no  mistakes. 

The  absolute  system  of  spiritual  facts  in  their  good  and  purity 
are  held  therein  by  this  same  power  of  law,  for  it  exists  as  a 
thoroughly  organized  state  of  spiritual  being,  and  manifests  one 
standard  of  love  for  all  creation,  absolute  and  unassailable.  It  is 
the  very  highest  state  of  existence  obtainable  and  Lord  over  all 
becajLise  supreme. 

Next  comes  order,  as  the  third  concept  of  principle  in  its 
perfect  being,  for  all  of  this  knowledge  and  enlightenment 
must  be  systematized  and  brought  under  a  law  of  economy  and 
usefulness,  for  the  science  and  law  of  principle  must  work  in 
harmony  that  it  may  surely  express  good. 


Principle 


175 


It  must  express  method  in  all  of  its  operations^  and  regulate 
all  action  according  to  a  perfect  law,  for  orderliness  is  the 
way  of  law.  All  of  the  ways  of  principle  are  governed  by  science, 
law,  order,  that  God's  existence  and  that  of  His  creation  may  be 
exactly  and  correctly  fulfilled. 

Jesus  the  Christ-law  came  into  the  world  to  fulfill  the  law, 
that  is  to  fill  the  world  full  of  the  law  of  good  as  the  prin- 
ciple of  right,  righteousness.  By  means  of  which  we  as  chil- 
dren of  Mind  can  learn  absolute  law  through  the  science  of  Mind, 
and  come  into  perfect  orderliness  and  therein  and  thereby  reach 
perfection  in  life. 

Jesus  the  Christ  gave  unto  us  this  wonderful  law  of  right- 
eousness, and  he  commanded  us  to  walk  therein  alone,  for  he  said 
when  he  repeated  the  greatest  commandment,  "Thou  shalt  love 
the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  heart,  and  with  all  thy  soul,  and 
with  all  thy  mind." 

Principle  is  the  law  of  righteousness  made  supreme  in  per- 
fection and  is  as  a  finishing  touch  to  all  other  heads  of  the  law; 
it  is  in  and  among  them  all  as  God's  presence.  Jesus  said  that, 
**The  Father  is  greater  than  I,"  meaning  that  the  Father  was 
this  supreme  power  of  Principle  which  is  above  all  things,  as 
thoughts. 

Jesus  the  Christ  was  the  law  of  righteousness  made  perfect 
through  Principle  as  the  governing  power  of  all  being. 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Point  of  Principle. 


Principle 
Chaos 


Science 
Duality 

Law 

Anarchy 


Order 
Confusion 


!  Instruction  Egotism 

Enlightenment  Vacuity 

System  Irregularity 

(  Organization  Shiftlessness 

■j  Standard  Theory 

( Government  Lawlessness 


(  Method 
i  Regulation 
(  Fulfillment 


Carelessness 

Superficiality 

Procrastination 


176  The  Christ-Law 

PRINCIPLE,   THE   Truth   of   Truth,   versus   CHAOS,   as  a 
False   Concept. 

Chaos  is  a  false  mortal  interpretation;  it  is  a  false  appearance 
of  the  things  of  this  world  which  cannot  be  understood,  and  this 
is  because  they  are  not  in  accord  with  the  one  Christ-law. 

Chaos  means  no  thought  at  all^  no  understanding  at  all;  there- 
fore it  has  no  real  meaning  but  is  simply  a  sensation  of  a  sug- 
gestion, received  through  the  five  deceiving  mortal  sense  organs. 
It  would  have  us  believe  that  there  is  more  and  even  less  than  a 
perfect  God,  that  principle  does  not  contain  it  all,  for  there  is 
something  over.  This  would  be  utter  confusion  and  lead  us 
astray,  wherein  we  would  not  make  any  progress  towards  gaining 
our  rightful  state  of  existence  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

We  cannot  know  chaos  and  principle  also  and  then  understand 
either  one,  for  they  are  opposites;  chaos  would  gain  our  atten- 
tion and  have  us  divide  our  mind-action  between  good  and  evil 
that  we  might  not  know  either  one. 

Therefore  if  we  strive  to  serve  God  in  His  principle  of  perfect 
law,  and  also  mammon  as  our  false  mortal  imaginations,  then 
we  do  not  get  one  truth  but  are  under  both  the  truth  and  the  lie, 
and  their  combined  influence  is  chaos. 

There  is  no  chaos  apart  from  mortal  imagination,  for  it  is 
chaos  itself  without  reliability,  because  it  has  no  standard  of 
truth.  To  know  principle  is  the  destruction  of  all  chaos,  and  the 
establishing  of  light. 

SCIENCE,  AS  THE  Love  of  Principle,  versus  DUALITY,  as  a 
Hate  Concept. 

Duality  is  the  mortal  belief  that  there  is  more  than  the  one 
perfect  truth.  Duality  declares  that  both  good  and  evil  have 
being  and  existence,  and  that  one  is  just  as  real  and  true  as  the 
other.  Duality  claims  that  there  are  two  opposing  laws  which 
have  existence  in  reality,  and  that  both  prevail  in  having  their 
own  way.  Duality  claims  that  death  as  mortality  has  life-action 
and  lives,  also  that  spirituality  dies,  and  is  killed  by  death,  noth- 
ingness. This  is  equivalent  to  saying  that  truth  is  not  true  but 
is  a  lie,  and  also  that  a  lie  is  not  a  lie  but  truth. 


Principle  177 

But  the  law  of  truth  as  scientific  Christianity  denies  all  of. 
these  impossible  claims^  for  it  has  the  power  to  make  us  know 
that  truth  is  true  to  the  utter  destruction  of  mortal  sense  claims 
in  the  opposite  testimony. 

LAW,  THE  Truth  of  Principle,  versus  ANARCHY,  as  a  False 

Concept. 

Anarchy  is  the  mortal  consciousness  running  riot,  believing  in 
itself  as  a  power  to  judge  and  condemn  from  its  own  imagina- 
tion as  a  standard.  Anarchy  is  utter  blindness  to  any  law  of 
good  as  love,  for  its  intent  is  to  kill  that  which  opposes  it,  and 
then  exalt  itself  in  the  place  of  good  or  God. 

Anarchy  is  the  mortal  concept  of  self  as  all,  and  is  a  darkened 
state  of  sensation  concerning  material  conditions  only,  which 
knows  not  the  Christ  presence  of  love  and  good.  The  real  thing 
which  it  hates  is  its  own  impotent  law,  but  it  is  blind  to  this  fact. 
When  we  come  into  the  realization  of  the  Christ-law  as  all  then 
anarchy  vanishes  away. 

ORDER,  THE  Life  of  Principle,  versus  CONFUSION,  as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Confusion  is  the  mortal  consciousness  striving  to  think  noth- 
ingness. For  its  own  self  as  an  imagination  through  suggestion, 
is  its  confusion  and  fury.  It  is  a  mass  of  imaginery  beliefs  about 
that  which  cannot  be  accounted  for  in  truth;  it  constitutes  that 
state  of  seeming  life  which  our  Master  said  was  dead.  He  re- 
ferred to  it  when  he  said,  *Xet  the  dead  bury  their  dead,'*  their 
confusion.  We  must  awake  to  the  fact  that  we  are  not  mortal 
but  spiritual  soul  entities,  not  things  of  death  but  life. 

INSTRUCTION,  the  Life  of  Science,  versus  EGOTISM,  as 
A    Death    Concept. 

Egotism  is  the  mortal  concept  of  self  as  all,  and  such  a 
mortal  is  blind  to  any  other  power  than  his  own  being.  But  this 
is  not  being,  for  it  is  mortal  death  as  nothingness.  Our  Master 
said  that  there  was  none  good  but  God.    He  also  said  that  of  him- 


17^  The  Christ-Law 

jself  he  could  do  nothing.     So  it  is  that  egotists  think  that  they  are 
greater  than  our  Master. 

Egotists  say  that  their  will  must  prevail,  right  or  wrong,  just 
because  it  is  their  will.  They  do  not  know  Christ,  but  think 
that  they  know  every  thing  else.  You  cannot  instruct  an  egotist 
because  he  is  all  sufficient  unto  himself  and  will  not  hear  you. 

ENLIGHTENMENT,  the  Love  of  Science,  versus  VACU- 
ITY, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

The  concept  of  vacuity  is  a  very  good  concept  of  mortality, 
for  it  is  the  utter  absence  of  that  which  is  of  the  Christ-law.  But 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  vacuity  apart  from  mortal  imagination, 
because  the  whole  of  space  is  full  of  spiritual  presence  and  the 
laws  of  righteousness. 

There  is  no  lack  of  infallible  power  of  the  Spirit  of  good  and 
loveliness,  its  right  ideas  fill  all  space  and  presence  and  provide 
us  with  being  of  the  right  kind.  Its  laws  of  love  and  good  are 
our  source  of  life  and  peace  and  are  free  to  those  who  will  take 
them. 

SYSTEM,  the  Truth  of  Science,  versus  IRREGULARITY,  as 
A  False  Concept. 

Irregularity  is  a  mortal  concept  which  expresses  its  own 
state  of  death.  It  is  an  unlawful  use  of  our  God  given  gift  of 
mind-action  upon  a  mortal  suggestion  of  that  which  is  opposed 
to  the  law  of  system. 

Evil  within  the  mortal  consciousness  would  have  us  express 
this  idea  that  it  might  make  us  believe  that  God's  perfect  law 
had  gone  astray,  lost  its  power  of  perfection,  or  anything  else  to 
blind  us  to  the  truth  of  good. 

But  God's  universal  law  is  immutable  and  cannot  be  lost  neither 
imperfected.  If  this  could  be  done,  God's  kingdom  would  not 
last  two  minutes. 

System  is  our  salvation  in  existence,  and  is  our  rightful  in- 
heritance from  a  God  of  heaven. 


Principle  179 

ORGANIZATION,  the  Love  of  Law,  versus  SHIFTLESS- 
NESS,  AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Shiftlessness  is  mortal  laziness  and  is  a  mortal  expression  of  its 
own  impotence.  There  is  no  good,  truth,  right,  or  being  in  this 
seeming  action  of  the  mortal  makeup.  Its  whole  intent  and  effort 
is  to  keep  us  from  expressing  life  as  action  that  we  might  live. 

Shiftlessness  never  yet  produced  anything  real  neither  true, 
for  it  opposes  all  good  and  right  in  that  it  withholds  life-action, 
which  alone  produces  the  good.  Organization  is  the  way  of  the 
law,  and  our  way  if  we  would  succeed,  when  we  strive  to  set  up  an- 
other way  called  the  way  of  mortality,  because  it  won't  fight 
us  and  will  let  us  alone  in  our  shiftlessness,  then  we  are  not 
worth  the  saving  but  aught  to  abide  in  our  confusion. 

STANDARD,  the  Truth  of  Law,  versus  THEORY,  as  a  False 

Concept. 

Theory  is  that  which  is  not  known  but  comes  within  the  im- 
agination and  will  of  mortals.  It  is  claimed  to  be  something 
because  it  is  believed  to  be  something,  but  just  what  standard  it 
conforms  to  is  not  known. 

True  standard  is  the  one  God  made  of  perfect  good  or  love; 
and  when  we  use  it  exclusively  to  measure  our  soul's  expressions, 
we  shall  not  have  the  thought  of  theory  for  we  shall  surely  know. 

This  standard  of  love  is  the  one  measure  by  means  of  which  we 
may  all  know  the  things  of  the  Christ-law  without  mistake. 

GOVERNMENT,  the  Life  of  Law,  versus  LAWLESSNESS, 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Lawlessness  is  a  false  concept  of  that  which  has  true  being, 
the  result  of  which  is  to  present  to  us  nothingness  as  something. 
When  we  understand  the  perfect  presence  of  God's  law,  there 
will  be  no  time  for  thoughts  of  nothingness ;  it  will  fill  our  being 
so  full  that  everywhere  will  be  law  and  expressions  of  lawfulness. 

Lawlessness  as  an  imagination  of  mortals  is  a  concept  of  self, 
as  are  all  of  these  falsities  which  are  apart  from  God.  They  are 
the  things  which  were  never  made  although  they  seem  to  have 


180  The  Christ-Law 

being  and  ability  to  make  us  suffer.    But  God  never  made  any- 
thing but  government  through  love. 

METHOD,  THE  Truth  of  Order,  versus  CARELESSNESS,  as 
A  False  Concept. 

Carelessness  is  a  very  common  error  in  this  mortal  state  of 
death  expression  through  the  carnal  consciousness.  It  cannot  pro- 
duce anything  good,  and  surely  is  not  lovely  as  a  state  of  being, 
for  it  will  not  teach  us  of  order  neither  of  good,  but  will  blind  us 
to  the  knowing  of  orderliness,  and  strive  to  keep  us  from  expres- 
sions of  the  law. 

Jesus  said  that  we  were  to  be  born  again  into  a  perfect  concept 
of  the  spiritual  life.  And  that  those  who  did  not  gel  this  concept 
of  the  perfect  life  were  to  remain  where  they  were  in  the  death 
concept  of  mortality  and  he  said  that  mortality  was  death,  dead. 

REGULATION,  the  Life  of  Order,  versus  SUPERFICIAL- 
ITY, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Superficiality  is  a  make-believe  concept,  false  in  every  intent 
of  being.  There  is  none  of  the  strength  of  order  in  it,  but  instead 
foolish,  senseless,  mortal  imagination,  without  being,  complete- 
ness or  truth. 

Any  superficial  thing  is  worthless  and  unworthy,  God*s  chil- 
dren do  not  live  by  this  kind  of  thoughts,  but  demand  truth  as  a 
live  active  state  of  perfect  law.  The  deceit  expressed  in  all 
things  superficial  is  not  to  be  understood,  and  when  recognized 
is  seen  to  be  nothingness  posing  as  something,  but  which  has  no 
substance  to  show  for  its  authority  of  being. 

FULFILLMENT,  the  Love  of  Order,  versus  PROCRASTIN- 
ATION, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Procrastination  is  a  very  subtle  error  of  the  mortal  imagina- 
tion, for  it  would  keep  us  from  getting  fully  in  touch  with  the 
Christ-law. 

In  this  way  it  would  defraud  us  out  of  our  rightful  inheritance 
of  perfect  life-action  in  the  expression  of  love.    Its  suggestion  that 


Principle  181 

there  is  plenty  of  time,  is  a  very  subtle  error  for  the  mortal  con- 
sciousness is  never  in  a  hurry  to  listen  to  labor,  its  intent  is  to 
rest  and  let  someone  else  work.  Procrastination  is  the  fear  of 
mortals  of  the  time  when  mortality  shall  cease  to  be;  it  would 
put  off  its  own  demise  to  deceive  us  the  longer.  But  fulfillment 
is  the  law  and  it  shall  not  fail. 

As  it  has  been  in  all  other  points  of  the  Star  wherein  we  were 
obliged  to  destroy  our  allegiance  to  these  evil  and  false  beliefs 
of  the  mortal  consciousness;  so  also  must  it  be  accomplished  in 
this  point. 

We  cannot  rightfully  present  ourselves  as  candidates  for  in- 
struction before  the  Christ,  and  in  the  presence  of  his  law,  until 
we  have  complied  with  the  demand  that  we  walk  in  the  law  with 
clean  hearts. 

Not  until  we  have  given  up  our  allegiance  to  these  hateful 
thoughts  and  evil  suggestions,  will  we  be  qualified  and  able  to 
perceive  and  understand  spiritual  meanings,  and  abide  within  the 
protection  of  the  law  free  from  the  confusion  of  service  to  two 
standards. 

But  having  accomplished  this  understanding  and  come  out  from 
under  the  ban  of  these  evil  states  of  consciousness,  we  are  ready 
to  proceed  with  the  following  tables,  which  are  to  be  studied 
carefully  and  persistently  until  we  see  clearly  the  life,  love,  truth 
in  them,  and  know  that  it  is  the  one  complete  meaning  intended 
by  the  law. 

This  law  is  not  based  upon  mortal  opinions,  neither  personal 
likes  nor  dislikes,  nor  governed  by  mortal  laws  of  any  description. 
The  ambitious,  dominating  mortals,  no  matter  who  they  are, 
cannot  add  anything  to  it  nor  take  anything  away  from  it,  neither 
aid  it  in  any  way  to  prevail.  For  the  efforts  of  mortals  with  their 
coercive  laws,  but  instil  fear  into  the  hearts  of  men  and  thereby 
hide  the  true  sense  of  the  Christ  love. 

God's  perfect  law  is  able  and  capable  in  its  prevailing,  and 
as  a  perfect  law  of  righteousness  it  has  already  prevailed.  When 
we  come  to  know  this  fact  and  to  serve  it  with  an  honest  will  and 
intent  of  heart,  uncontaminated  with  mortality  then  will  we  cease 
to  be  afraid,  and  progress  in  spiritual  understanding. 


182  The  Christ-Law 

To  have  the  courage  to  break  away  from  dominating  mortals 
and  their  old  and  dead  customs,  which  teach  of  good  and  evil, 
is  a  very  great  start  in  our  progress,  and  will  reveal  the  higher 
law  of  the  Christ.  The  following  tables  are  intended  to  reveal  this 
law  in  its  complete  life-love-truth-meaning  that  all  may  have  one 
law  and  one  Christ  to  follow. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem. 

The  Tables  of  the  Fifth  Point  of  the  Star  of  Principle. 

Table  One. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Truth  equals  truth's  perfect 
Principle. 

Table  Two. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Principle  equals  life's  active 
Science. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Principle  equals  truth's  perfect 
Law. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Principle  equals  love's  substantial 
Order. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Principle,  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Science,  Law,  Order.     These  three  ideas  represent  Principle. 

Table  Three. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Science  equals  truth's  perfect 
Instruction. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Science  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Enlightenment. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Science  equals  life's  active 
System. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Science,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Instruction,  Enlightenment,  System.  These  three  ideas  repre- 
sent Science.. 


Principle  183 

Table  Four. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Law  equals  life's  active  Organ- 
ization. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Law  equals  Truth's  perfect 
Standard. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Law  equals  love's  substantial  Gov- 
ernment. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Law  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are  Or- 
ganization^ Standard,  Government.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Law. 

Table  Five. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Order  equals  love's  substantial 
Method. 

The  life-action  of  active  Order  equals  life's  active  Regula):ion. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Order  equals  truth's  perfect  Ful- 
fillment. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Order  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Method,  Regulation,  Fulfillment.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Order. 

These  are  the  tables  within  the  point  of  the  Star  of  Principle, 
and  are  to  be  committed  to  memory,  for  we  must  have  them  as 
states  of  conscience  firmly  fixed  in  mind,  that  they  may  be  a  sure 
defense  against  any  and  every  evil  suggestion  which  strives  to 
prevail.  To  know  these  ideas  in  their  lawful  meaning  of  spiritual 
being  is  to  gain  the  protection  of  the  power  of  the  Christ-law. 

The  Relation  of  the  Ideas  in  This  Point  of  the  Star. 

Principle  is  the  last  and  very  highest  attainment  of  mind- 
action  which  can  be  expressed.  When  it  is  gained  in  perfection 
we  shall  have  absolute  power  over  the  enemy  in  all  of  his  subtle 
disguises,  forms  and  suggestions.  We  shall  have  completed  our 
course  in  spiritual  understanding  and  risen  above  the  mortal 
imaginations  of  the  evil  destructive  consciousness. 

Science  as  the  love  of  principle  leads  us  into  a  concept  of  the 
perfect  law,  and  through  law  we  are  made  to  understand  that 
which  is  real. 


184  The  Christ-Law 

For  reality  is  found  only  in  the  law  of  scientific  Christianity^ 
and  through  this  understanding  of  scientific  Christianity  are  we 
given  consecration. 

These  are  the  three  stages  of  our  concept  of  love-substance 
in  the  law,  for  science  being  real  then  it  demands  consecration. 

Law  as  the  truth  of  principle  is  found  to  be  in  association 
with  infinity  as  infinite  being,  while  sanctity  is  the  substance  of 
the  law.  These  are  the  three  stages  of  our  progress  in  gaining 
an  understanding  of  just  what  law  is,  for  law  is  infinite  good 
sanctified. 

Order  as  the  life  of  principle  is  in  association  with  presence, 
for  order  is  the  law  of  presence  in  perfection,  and  it  is  further 
associated  with  purity,  thus  giving  us  a  complete  idea  of  the  life- 
action  of  principle,  for  orderly  presence  as  the  true  love  of  the 
Christ  is  the  pure  law. 

Out  of  the  presence  of  the  laws  of  honesty  and  justice  come 
the  concept  of  science,  as  the  perfect  way  of  the  supreme  Law. 
Out  of  justice  and  science  comes  the  concept  of  law;  for  the 
action  of  justice  in  a  scientific  way  is  a  good  perception  of  law. 

Out  of  a  realization  of  science  and  law  comes  our  perception 
of  order,  for  there  is  no  order  except  in  science  and  law,  as 
scientific  law. 

And  now  in  the  fourth  revelation  from  equity  and  justification 
comes  the  concept  of  instruction,  and  it  is  well  known  that  truth 
as  a  law  is  that  power  which  alone  can  instruct  anyone  and  com- 
pel them  to  understand. 

Out  of  justification  and  instruction  do  we  get  enlightenment, 
as  the  substance  of  science  wherein  we  know  and  are  made  free. 

Out  of  instruction  and  enlightenment  do  we  get  the  concept 
of  system,  for  all  of  the  law  is  systematic  and  perfect,  and  it  can 
be  attained  only  through  the  one  way  of  scientific  instruction. 

Out  of  enlightenment  and  system  we  receive  the  concept  of  or- 
ganization, for  the  law  is  perfectly  organized  in  its  life-love- 
truth-presence. 

Out  of  system  and  organization  we  get  the  perception  of  one 
standard,  that  of  love  which  is  the  base  of  the  whole  law. 


Principle  185 

Out  of  organization  and  standard  do  we  perceive  government 
as  the  law  in  action^  and  that  its  good  is  intended  for  our  use  and 
guidance. 

Out  of  standard  and  government  we  perceive  the  idea  of 
method^  which  is  a  necessary  state  of  economy  and  which  will 
help  us  to  prevail. 

Out  of  government  and  method  we  get  regulation  as  a  following 
of  the  fact  of  these  ideas^  and  we  can  see  just  how  it  profits  us 
in  economy. 

Out  of  method  and  regulation  we  receive  the  concept  of  ful- 
fillment of  the  law,  wherein  it  prevails  and  overcomes  all  mortal 
imagination,  for  fulfillment  as  the  love  of  the  orderliness  of  the 
law  is  our  salvation. 

When  we  have  established  these  ideas  in  consciousness,  we  shall 
have  gained  a  good  start  in  knowing  the  perfect  law  of  the 
Christ,  and  when  we  have  become  familiar  with  them  in  use  and 
in  demonstrating  their  power  over  evil  suggestion,  we  shall  per- 
ceive the  presence  of  the  law  as  the  presence  of  the  Christ  Spirit 
and  abide  within  its  protection  and  love. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  the  Law  of  Principle. 
The  Fifth  Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20,  2  and  12,  (Because)  "I  am  the  Lord  thy  God 
which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the 
house  of  bondage:"    Therefore  you  will  have  in  heart  to: — 

"Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother  that  thy  days  may  be  long 
upon  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee.'* 

To  honor  the  Father-Mother-Principle  which  is  the  spiritual 
power  of  life,  as  the  truth  and  love  of  Spirit,  the  truth  as  Father, 
and  the  love  as  Mother;  will  reveal  the  real  source  of  our  being. 
It  means  to  understand  that  we  are  spiritual  and  not  material. 
We  shall  intuitively  know  to  give  honor  to  the  law  which  gives  us 
life  in  the  expression  of  good  ideas,  for  these  are  to  be  to  us 
for  meat. 

This  commandment  is  associated  with  the  fifth  head  of  the 
law  as  principle,  which  is  the  source  of  all  action,  substance,  per- 


186  The  Christ-Law 

fection.    It  is  the  Father-Mother  of  every  state  of  perfect  being 
which  we  can  live. 

The  Fifth  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5,  7,  we  read  the  fifth  beatitude  which  Jesus  gave  in 
explanation  of  the  law  in  reference  to  principle. 

"Blessed  are  the  merciful:  for  they  shall  obtain  mercy.*' 

This  beatitude  agrees  with  the  fifth  point  of  the  Star  and 
head  of  the  law  in  principle ;  for  as  we  give  forth  a  consciousness 
knowing  mercy^  as  the  honest  exercise  of  love^  we  shall  thereby 
be  compelled  to  have  mercy  in  heart  as  an  intent.  We  shall 
surely  be  blessed  by  its  presence. 

If  by  mercy,  then  it  must  be  true  of  all  perfect  ideas  which 
compose  the  principle  of  thoughts  within  the  Christ-Mind,  for 
there  is  no  other  way  in  which  we  can  be  blessed,  save  by  de- 
claring, expressing  and  living  these  ideas  as  right  states  of 
being. 

The   Lord^s  Prayer. 

In  Matt.  6,  2,  we  read  the  fifth  section  of  the  Lord's  prayer. 

**Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread." 

Surely  this  refers  to  the  infinite  principle  of  perfect  and  right 
states  of  consciousness  in  which  we  live  alone,  and  apart  from 
which  we  do  not  live  at  all  but  die.  These  must  constitute  our 
daily  bread  of  spiritual  thoughts,  and  as  spiritual  mentalities  we 
eat  nothing  else,  for  they  are  the  source  of  life  and  immortality. 
These  states  of  being  as  idea  entities  wholly  spiritual  and  good 
are  the  things  which  God  created  in  the  beginning  finished  and 
made  perfect,  and  then  gave  to  his  children  with  this  command, 
walk  before  me  in  my  law  and  in  it  become  perfect.  We  shall 
not  walk  in  this  principle  of  scientific  Christianity  without  gaining 
its  perfection,  which  is  another  of  God's  wise  provisions. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  6,  19  to  24,  we  read  what  Jesus  said  about  principle 
as  the  head  of  the  law  in  the  realm  of  truth. 

We  are  told  not  to  lay  up  treasures  here  in  the  earth  of 
earthly  things  where  they  are  uncertain,  and  among  which  we 


Principle  187 

cannot  place  our  trust.  This  is  because  of  the  absence  of  that 
* 'faith  of  knowing"  in  the  transitory  and  changeable  character 
of  all  material  goods.  The  moth  and  rust^  the  wear  and  tear  of 
things  in  this  struggle  of  the  survival  of  those  who  have  the 
most  money,  the  sharpest  wits,  the  least  conscience,  and  the 
power  to  execute  them  upon  others;  all  of  which  is  not  under  a 
principle,  neither  has  it  any  standard  of  good,  and  if  not  of  good 
then  none  at  all. 

But  we  are  commanded  to  establish  true  states  of  conscious 
being  in  life-action  of  the  perfect  law  of  good,  wherein  there  is 
no  evil  thing  to  make  us  afraid,  and  nothing  which  will  not  last 
always  for  our  good. 

Jesus  tells  us  to  lay  up  a  store  of  faith  through  attaining  a 
clear  concept  of  life  in  the  expression  of  perfect  states  of  true 
being,  that  we  may  know  the  kingdom  of  heaven  which  is  within 
us,  and  in  which  is  no  moth,  neither  rust,  nor  is  there  any  of  the 
wear  and  tear  of  mortality.  Nor  any  of  its  fury  and  confusion  of 
self  prevailing  at  the  expense  of  the  neighbor. 

Jesus  puts  it  very  plainly  when  he  says,  that  wherever  our 
heart's  intent  and  liking  is,  there*  also  is  our  effort  to  possess  that 
thing,  because  we  treasure  it  and  esteem  it  of  value.  It  matters 
not  what  it  is,  but  if  material,  fame,  wealth,  money,  power,  pride 
of  living,  social  supremacy ;  there  will  our  heart's  effort  be  guided, 
as  among  the  things  of  rust;  or  if  we  are  searching  to  find  the 
Christ-law  of  immortality,  surely  it  will  not  be  among  these  am- 
bitions. We  must  not  forget  that  he  said  that  whichever  one  we 
found  to  be  of  value  that  there  would  our  heart's  effort  be  found 
at  work  to  obtain  it. 

The  faith  of  certain  knowing  is  a  very  great  possession,  greater 
than  gold  and  silver  or  any  material  possession  which  will  rust. 
And  it  is  the  power  of  principle  which  makes  us  to  know.  When 
we  have  gained  this  priceless  gem  then  will  we  separate  the  good 
from  the  evil  persistently,  and  dwell  within  the  bounds  of  the 
principle  of  good  continually. 

Jesus  in  summing  up  this  whole  subject  of  principle  as  per- 
fection, says:  "The  light  (the  understanding  life-action) 
of  the  body  is  the  eye,  (our  means  of  interpretation).    If,  there- 


188  The  Christ-Law 

fore^  thine  eye  (interpretation)  be  single  (as  one  law,  in  accord 
with  perfect  principle)  then  thy  whole  body  shall  be  full  of 
light  (spiritual  understanding)." 

"But  if  thine  eye  (interpretation)  be  evil  (made  through  the 
imperfect  sense  testimony  as  an  interpretation)  then  thy  whole 
body  (being)  shall  be  full  of  darkness;  therefore  if  the  light 
(interpretation)  which  is  in  thee  be  darkness  (the  false  inter- 
pretation of  the  animal  sense-mind)  how  great  is  that  darkness.*' 
This  surely  will  give  us  something  to  think  about  in  the  matter 
of  serving  principle^  or  not  to  do  so. 


CHAPTER  X. 

DOMINION 

THB  Life  of  Truth. 

The  Law  of  Knowing,  Prevailing  Over  Sensation. 

Dominion  as  the  life  of  truth  is  the  power  of  the  law  expressed^ 
and  is  that  state  of  being  which  is  sought  throughout  the  earth  by 
all  people. 

But  upon  different  standards_,  and  in  different  ways^  also  for 
different  purposes^  little  knowing  that  dominion  is  one  state  of 
being  and  is  given  as  the  life-action  of  true  perfection.  The  rea- 
son why  we  have  not  attained  unto  dominion  in  the  past,  is  be- 
cause it  was  not  true  dominion  which  we  were  striving  to  gain,  but 
the  opposite  of  dominion  in  the  impotence  of  selfishness,  death, 
which  is  not  the  life  action  of  truth,  or  dominion. 

In  John  5  :42,  we  read  some  very  plain  statements  which  were 
made  by  our  Saviour,  and  which  bear  directly  on  this  subject  of 
dominion. 

**But  I  know  you  that  you  have  not  the  love  of  God  in  you.*' 

Jesus  must  have  perceived  the  selfishness  and  selfwill  in  these 
people,  which  would  hide  the  action  of  truth  within  their  con- 
science. 

John  5:44,  How  can  ye  believe  (know)  which  receive  honor 
one  of  another:  and  seek  not  the  honor  that  coraeth  from  God 
only  } 

This  states  very  clearly  that  the  law  in  its  prevailing  is  our  do- 
minion, and  when  contaminated  with  mortal  opinions  or  coercive 
laws,  which  are  intended  to  give  honor  to  men  or  help  the  law 
in  its  perfect  action,  that  it  is  defeated  and  made  null  and  void 
thereby. 

John  7:17,  ''If  any  man  will  do  his  will  he  shall  know  of  the 
doctrine,  whether  it  be  of  God  or  whether  I  speak  of  myself.'* 


190  The  Christ-Law 

Even  Jesus^  who  had  the  appearance  of  being  a  man  like  others, 
did  not  exalt  himself,  but  referred  to  the  doctrine  as  a  law  or  will 
of  God,  which  was  to  reveal  its  own  dominion  to  men  when  they 
accepted  it  unadulterated. 

If  Jesus  did  not  exalt  himself,  then  why  should  we  think  our- 
selves to  be  worthy  of  mention  in  the  presence  of  the  law  which  is 
all  ?  And  more,  let  us  turn  a  light  upon  this  self  of  mortality,  let 
us  turn  from  our  worldly  analysis  of  the  things  of  appearance, 
that  is,  from  the  things  of  the  realm  of  outer  darkness,  because 
they  do  not  give  us  a  life-love-truth-meaning  as  an  understanding 
of  spiritual  being,  and  then  carefully  examine  our  own  heart's 
expression  to  honestly  find  what  is  therein,*  for  as  children  of  God, 
as  active  spiritual  mentalities  we  should  find  Christ  as  a  law  of 
infinite  good  established  and  expressing  life,  love,  truth. 

But  just  what  do  we  really  find.^  Is  it  not  a  storehouse  full  of 
deceit  and  iniquity  acquired  from  years  of  sense  experience  with 
sin,  doubt,  greed,  fury  and  confusion.^  And  are  we  really  and 
truly  happy,  contented,  prosperous,  and  convinced  of  the  allness 
of  good  and  satisfied  ? 

While  looking  within  our  own  heart's  conscience  do  we  make  a 
discovery  which  we  have  not  in  the  past  been  just  willing  to  ac- 
knowledge and  own.f* 

It  is  that  heart  of  stone  in  which  is  no  honest  love  of  God,  but 
rather  a  conscience  filled  with  strife,  indifference,  and  selfishness ; 
one  subjugated  with  pain  and  sorrow,  and  become  unsympathetic, 
unresponsive,  defiant,  hateful,  cold,  dead.  Are  not  our  hearts 
full  of  secrets  and  remorse  of  past  sin  and  mistakes  }  *  Some  or  all 
of  which,  we  are  not  honestly  willing  to  repent,  maybe  do  not 
dare,  but  desire  to  have  them  overlooked  and  foolishly  hope  that 
they  will  be,  for  otherwise  it  might  be  inconvenient  and  cause  us 
suffering  or  shame. 

Knowing  this  state  of  mortality  and  its  evil  expression,  is  it 
any  wonder  that  he  said  to  those  hearts  standing  by  him,  "I  know 
you  that  you  have  not  the  love  of  God  in  you." 

But  let  us  turn  from  this  sorry  tale  unto  the  hope  of  dominion, 
which,  when  it  is  attained,  will  do  away  with  all  of  this  evil 
thought,  and  surely  make  right  all  that  is  wrong.     To  know  and 


Dominion  191 

live  the  one  righteous  law  of  perfection  is  our  dominion^  and  by  it 
can  we  prevail;  for  this  evil  consciousness  will  be  overcome  and 
cannot  longer  hold  us  down  in  bondage  to  its  suggestion  of  im- 
potence. For  we  are  not  impotent  mortals,  but  spiritual  mentali- 
ties with  dominion  as  an  ability  to  think  and  express  Christ's  law. 

What  Is  Dominion,  the  Life  of  Truth.'* 

Dominion  is  a  state  of  the  souFs  knowing.  It  is  to  see  with  the 
soul.  To  see  with  the  soul  is  to  understand.  To  understand  is 
the  consciousness  of  good  in  heart.  A  consciousness  of  good  is  a 
realization  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection. 

The  concept  of  dominion  as  a  state  of  the  soul's  being  is  given 
in  a  realization  of  its  perfect  action,  for  when  the  soul  knows  that 
2  times  2  equals  4,  it  expresses  dominion  through  this  perfect 
state  of  law. 

It  knows  loyalty,  because  it  has  practiced  being  loyal  until  it 
has  perceived  that  as  a  state  of  perfect  being  it  produces  good 
every  time. 

Then  because  the  good  or  love  has  all  attraction  to  draw  men  to 
good,  the  soul  gives  to  loyalty  its  allegiance,  thereafter  nothing 
can  prevail  against  this  soul's  knowing  of  loyalty  and  dominion 
will  be  manifest. 

Dominion  as  truth's  action  differs  from  the  dominion  in  love's 
action  or  love's  perfection  in  harmony,  in  the  fact  that  in  dominion 
we  use  life-action;  while  in  harmony  we  use  truth-perfection  as 
our  power  of  expression. 

Now  when  we  turn  in  earnest  from  our  dead-sense  heart,  that 
mortal  consciousness  which  has  so  completely  covered  up  the  spir- 
itual concept  of  things,  through  its  material  sense-experience  of 
this  worldly  existence;  we  find  the  live  heart  of  the  soul.  That 
real  live  Christ  consciousness  as  an  experience  of  life,  love,  truth. 
Here  we  find  our  love  perfected  and  also  in  action.  This  living 
soul  consciousness  which  sees  the  good  only  as  an  understanding 
of  the  presence  of  Christ,  reveals  our  real  true  being  in  a  full, 
sympathetic,  light  heart,  with  kindly  feeling  to  all,  and  ever 
grateful  to  our  Father  for  the  peace  which  is  within  us.  Then 
are  we  ready  to  stand  firm  in  the  faith  of  good,  and  to  divide  with 


192  The  Christ-Law 

our  neighbor  our  many  good  gifts  which  come  from  the  Father. 
Not  those  things  which  are  convenient  and  of  which  we  have  a 
plenty  and  to  spare^  but  of  those  things  which  we  value  most  and 
can  least  spare.  Not  striving  to  possess  our  own  rights  according 
to  our  own  opinions^  but  to  help  others  to  get  theirs  even  if  at  the 
expense  of  ours.  Then  will  we  begin  to  understand  our  dominion 
of  love  as  good  which  alone  overcomes  every  evil  thing. 

When  we  give  up  the  darkened  heart  that  old  mortal  con- 
sciousness filled  with  the  commandments  of  men^  as  the  rule  of 
self-preservation  which  regards  not  God;  then  shall  we  begin  to 
understand  the  dominion  of  truth. 

This  concept  of  dominion  in  love^  and  the  dominion  in  truths 
will  reveal  the  dominion  in  life^  for  love  and  truth  equal  life. 

The  sixth  section  of  the  Lord's  prayer  will  be  made  plain  to 
us,  and  our  unlawful  thinking  will  be  destroyed,  our  debts  of 
sense  transgression  will  have  been  overcome;  and  we  receive  our 
rightful  dominion  in  exact  proportion  to  our  love  for  our  neighbor 
in  righteousness.  For  we  are  to  see  him  with  the  soul  as  an  active 
spiritual  mentality  expressing  the  law  of  life,  love,  truth.  Any 
other  appearance  which  he  may  seemingly  manifest  is  not  to  be 
him,  but  evil,  devil.     That  which  we  are  not  to  know. 

When  we  have  committed  the  tables  in  the  preceding  chapters 
and  from  putting  them  in  practice  discover  their  dominion,  and 
realize  their  substance  in  love;  also  their  'dominion  as  truth  in 
action,  we  will  find  our  life  to  be  in  proportion  to  the  number  of 
ideas  which  we  can  express  with  dominion.  Our  allegiance  is  to 
be  first  and  last  to  God  and  his  perfect  law,  and  through  his 
Christ  ideas  to  extend  this  law  to  all  men. 

The  manifest  law  of  healing  is  herein  shown  to  be  that  power 
of  demonstration  which  truth  has  over  the  lie.  The  dominion  of 
truth  in  action  over  all  sense  testimony  as  the  lie  of  inaction. 
This  power  is  summed  up  as  follows  and  expresses  the  dominion 
of  Mind  in  our  conscience. 

Righteousness  as  a  law  of  the  rightness  of  right,  the  love-sub- 
stance of  truth;  because  of  its  substance  perfected,  is  bound  to 
produce  one  perfection  as  a  realized  law  of  right  and  truth.  This 
gives  us  a  concept  of  principle  as  the  truth  of  perfection,  to  which 


Dominion  19^ 

we  adhere  because  of  its  indestructable  and  unassailable  power  in 
prevailing  against  everything  unlike  itself. 

This  irresistable  power  of  riglit  and  truth  as  a  law  of  perfection 
reveals  one  constructive  good  which  is  love  or  the  substance  of 
right.  But  this  is  not  complete  within  our  consciousness  for  the 
reason  that  the  knowing  of  truth  is  an  act  of  life,  and  not  until 
we  experience  within  our  own  conscience  its  active  dominion  do 
we  know.  Not  until  we  have  proven  the  certain  action  of  truth's 
dominion  as  a  power  to  prevail  do  we  know  and  know  tliat  we 
know,  and  know  just  how  and  why  it  prevails. 

Therefore  all  ideas  in  Mind  symbolizing  truth's  perfection  as 
constructive  good,  are  fulfilled  and  our  knowing  sealed  in  con- 
science, because  of  the  living  action  of  truth's  power;  that  is,  all 
truth  as  constructive  good  becomes  all  powerful  when  perceived  in 
action. 

Jas.  2 :22,  **Seest  thou  how  faith  wrought  with  his  works,  and 
by  works  was  faith  made  perfect." 

Herein  James  speaks  of  the  perfect  faith  of  knowing  the  works. 
It  was  the  same  faith  which  Jesus  had  in  his  Father,  that  perfect 
knowledge  of  the  supreme  law  of  perfection.  It  must  have  been 
because  of  the  soul-knowing  which  Jesus  expressed  that  he  was 
able  to  do  the  works  that  he  did,  for  he  often  spoke  of  the  neces- 
sity of  having  faith,  belief,  knowing,  as  a  requisite  of  expressing 
dominion.  He  said  moreover  that  nothing  should  be  impossible 
to  those  who  could  believe,  that  is,  who  were  able  to  gain  an  abso- 
lute understanding  of  the  dominion  of  the  law  which  is  absolute. 

To  know  the  spiritual  principle  of  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection,  and  believe  it  without  any  doubt  because  it  is 
absolute  law  and  to  know  just  how  and  why  it  is  sure  and  certain, 
is  the  kind  of  belief  which  is  required  to  demonstrate  the  Christ 
dominion. 

This  law  of  healing  through  the  three  powers  of  Mind,  to  be 
known  in  conscience  and  expressed  as  soul  experiences  of  love*s 
attraction  in  constructive  good  and  possessed  in  wisdom;  also  in 
truth's  power  of  perfection  as  in  harmony;  and  in  life's  demon- 
strable action  in  dominion;  covers  vastly  more  than  the  subduing 
of  pain,  or  the  overcoming  of  disease. 


194f  The  Christ-Law 

It  is  not  intended  to  aggrandize  mortality  in  any  sphere  what- 
soever^ but  is  to  make  plain  the  allness  of  the  good^  and  to  heal 
the  sick  and  sinful  of  their  confusion. 

This  fact  follows  the  dominion  of  Mind  in  its  use  as  a  soul's 
knowing.  That  is  as  we  guide  our  thoughts  into  lawful  channels 
of  right  ideas  only^  do  we  become  like  them  and  gain  a  certain 
knowledge  of  righteousness  as  a  positive  law.  For  there  is  one 
life  only  which  is  surely  perfect;  to  acquire  it  at  all  is  to  acquire  it 
perfectly^  one  idea  in  perfection  at  a  time^  until  we  have  gone 
over  the  whole  list  and  made  it  all  ours.  In  this  way  we  can 
make  definite  progress  and  know  just  where  we  are  in  the  scale 
of  development^  and  are  able  to  touch  up  any  point  in  which  we 
need  especial  training. 

If  we  strive  to  include  material  conditions  within  this  law  we 
shall  find  confusion  in  our  path_,  and  we  surely  shall  not  under- 
stand. But  if  we  turn  down  this  testimony  and  suggestion  of  the 
sense-mind^  giving  it  a  deaf  ear^  and  then  go  into  conscience  and 
abide  by  the  testimony  of  Spirit  to  our  spirit^  we  shall  surely 
known  and  know  that  we  know. 

Knowings  as  the  soul's  realization  of  truth-perfection^  is  the 
healing  power  of  the  Christ.  It  will  surely  overcome  in  our  con- 
sciousness every  erroneous  imagination  of  the  evil  sense-mind^ 
and  correct  every  imperfect  sense-concept  (mental  error),  and 
also  their  resulting  physical  manifestations.  Not  through  a  be- 
lief as  a  blind  hopeless  faith  of  uncertainty^  but  through  the  do- 
minion of  absolute  knowing;  according  to  the  law  of  righteous- 
ness expressed  in  life^  love^  truth. 

How  TO  Know  Dominion. 

Now  how  shall  we  go  to  work  to  gain  this  absolute  dominion 
expressed  in  this  point  of  the  Star^  and  be  able  to  express  its 
active  demonstration  as  our  final  and  certain  proof  of  knowing? 
For  we  are  to  know  that  dominion  is  that  power  of  action  which  is 
to  seal  truth's  presence  within  our  conscience. 

The  very  first  thing  to  do  is  to  get  a  realization  of  the  Christ 
meaning  of  dominion.  Which  is  as  follows:  The  truth-perfec- 
tion of  dominion  equals  infallibility;  the  life-action  of  dominion 


Dominion  195 

equals  control;  and  the  love-substance  equals  power.  Dominion 
therefore  must  equal  an  infallible  controlling  power ;  which  is  the 
action  of  the  Christ-law  of  truth. 

A  concept  of  dominion  is  not  gained  at  once^  nor  without  due 
preparation^  for  we  must  gain  an  understanding  of  the  infallible 
allness  of  good  before  we  are  anywhere  near  dominion.  Even 
then  no  man  shall  know  dominion  save  him  who  possesses  it,  and 
can  prove  it  by  its  use. 

The  power  of  dominion  gives  forth  a  consciousness  of  the 
truth  of  lif e-and-love ;  also  the  life  of  love-and-truth ;  also  the  love 
of  truth-and-life,  and  these  are  one  concept  of  Mind. 

Dominion  is  to  know  the  will  of  life  as  all  action  in  the  uni- 
verse; love  as  all  substancie  anywhere  to  be  found;  and  truth  as 
all  perfection,  which  is  an  ever-present  law.  They  must,  how- 
ever, be  known  as  soul  experiences,  real,  active,  living  states  of 
being.  When  seen  through  the  soul  it  will  be  perceived  that  this 
power  is  the  dominion  of  the  law. 

Dominion  is  infallible  law  in  action,  for  when  we  have  demon- 
strated any  problem  of  spiritual  being,  there  is  present  the 
power  of  infallible  action  to  make  its  revelation  possible.  Here- 
in is  an  experience  of  our  knowing  power.  When  we  have  ex- 
pressed 2  times  2  equals  4,  we  have  come  into  contact  with  one 
phase  of  the  Christ-law,  and  when  we  know  that  obedience  is  the 
life  of  love,  and  that  dominion  is  the  life  of  truth,  then  we  have 
come  in  touch  with  Him  as  the  law.  This  is  because  of  the  pres- 
ence of  true  intelligence  expressed.  When  we  realize  intelligence 
as  principle  and  dominion ;  or  the  law  in  action,  we  have  come  into 
contact  with  the  creating  power  of  God. 

Once  knowing  intelligence  as  true  and  good,  then  we  shall  not 
be  able  to  know  ignorance  as  anything  at  all.  Ignorance  is  but  a 
mortal  sense  belief  of  the  absence  of  intelligence,  and  this  is  but 
sense-imperfection's  inability  to  understand  soul's  perfection,  and 
to  see  that  which  the  soul  sees. 

When  we  consider  the  somethingness  of  presence,  and  then 
understand  it  to  be  the  infallible  power  of  the  law  of  love  filling 
all  space,  and  that  this  power  of  love's  presence  is  the  law  or  will 
of  the  Christ,  and  is  the  spiritual  Christ's  presence  here  and  now. 


196  The  Christ-Law 

then  we  can  be  said  to  be  seeing  with  the  soul^  and  in  close  touch 
with  the  real  dominion  of  the  law. 

Stability^  certainty^  constancy  as  concepts  of  infallibility^  ex- 
press the  unchangeable  presence  of  the  law  of  the  Christ  and 
they  manifest  one  controlling  power  in  success,  achievement  and 
mastery.  This  is  the  dominion  of  the  Christ's  presence  here  in 
the  earth,  for  he  said,  *'Lo,  I  am  with  you  even  unto  the  end  of 
the  world." 

Moreover,  the  authority,  ability  and  finality  of  the  Christ  law 
of  dominion,  in  truth's  action  is  indisputable,  and  to  known  cer- 
tainty and  its  source  as  in  the  dominion  of  the  Christ's  presence, 
compels  doubt  to  vanish  away,  it  is  because  of  the  presence  in  the 
soul  of  a  realization  of  this  infallible  power  of  true  being. 

To  realize  success  as  manifest  dominion  within  conscience  will 
obliterate  every  trace  of  failure  in  mortal  sense,  for  we  cannot 
know  them  both. 

To  realize  finality  as  the  power  of  the  law  in  operation  is  the 
very  completeness  of  the  concept  of  dominion's  action,  for  it  is 
perfected. 

Thus  we  can  easily  see  that  all  sense-known  things  must  have 
a  battle  to  the  death  with  all  soul-known  things,  and  we  already 
know  that  the  soul-known  things  will  prevail.  Evil  is  already 
overcome  and  put  down  forever. 

It  is  the  power  of  dominion  in  truth  which  compels  a  lie  to 
lose  its  sense-presence  when  in  the  real  presence  of  truth.  So 
must  all  evil  vanish  before  good;  death  before  life;  hate  before 
love;  falsehood  before  truth. 

Dominion  as  the  ever  prevailing  power  of  tlie  Clirist's  pres- 
ence is  ever  active  in  manifesting  good  through  the  will  of  the 
one  perfect  law  of  righteousness.  Whatsoever  part  of  this  law 
we  declare,  secretly  knowing  in  the  soul,  with  our  active  ability 
of  dominion,  will  be  revealed  openly  by  demonstration,  and  ex- 
])ressed  through  the  Christ-mind. 

But  we  must  be  active  in  the  doing  of  this  law;  we  must  not 
fail  to  declare  it  until  the  attractive  power  of  love  is  revealed 
within;  then  it  must  be  clinched  with  the  power  of  truth's  per- 
fection realized. 


Dominion  197 

Dominion  is  the  power  of  the  will  of  God,  the  will  of  good 
in  us  expressed.  We  must  know,  and  know  life's  action,  love's 
substance,  truth's  perfection  so  well  that  we  can  say  with  cer- 
tainty, just  as  Jesus  said,  when  the  sick  man  came  unto  him 
saying,  **Good  Master  I  know  that  if  thou  wilt  thou  canst  make 
me  clean."     Jesus  replied,  "I  will,  be  thou  clean." 

Jesus  told  us  in  the  records  of  the  Bible  that  we  should  do 
the  works  he  did,  and  more,  that  nothing  should  be  impossible 
unto  us  if  we  could  but  believe,  gain  the  dominion  of  knowing 
this  absolute  law  of  perfection. 

Jesus  did  not  speak  with  doubt  at  any  time,  and  it  must  have 
been  because  he  knew  the  absolute  law  of  the  Father  in  all  of 
its  dominion  was  back  of  him,  ready  to  do  the  will  of  good  when 
it  was  knowingly  declared,  just  in  the  same  way  that  this  law 
is  applied  to  any  other  subject. 

Now  when  we  learn  to  know  then  we  can  speak  with  authority 
also,  but  not  until  we  know,  and  know  as  a  soul  experience  of 
Christ's  presence  within  us,  for  it  is  he  that  does  the  work  not 
we  ourselves. 

The  following  table  in  the  sixth  point  of  the  Star  of  dominion 
contains  some  of  the  most  aggressive  mortal  imaginations  which 
we  have  to  overcome  and  destroy.  When  the  truth  is  fully 
understood  about  them  we  are  delivered  from  their  attractive- 
ness by  contrasting  them  with  the  good,  wherein  the  false  exis- 
tence within  the  realm  of  death  gives  way  to  the  fact  of  truth. 

Dominion  to  the  impotent  mortal  sense,  which  never  knows 
anything  for  a  certainty,  is  a  tremendously  high  standard,  and  by 
it  is  not  attainable.  But  when  we  see  dominion  through  the 
soul,  instead  of  through  mortal  sense,  we  do  not  think  it  to  be 
so  very  difficult,  and  neither  is  it  unnatural,  for  without  dominion 
we  could  do  nothing  at  all.  We  cannot  make  any  progress  or 
gain  any  understanding  of  life  without  dominion.  From 
this  it  is  very  essential  that  we  understand  what  dominion 
consists  in,  and  know  how  to  use  it,  and  also  when  we  are  using 
it;  for  without  it  we  cannot  progress  beyond  a  mortal  hope  or 
sense  belief,  in  which  there  is  never  any  knowing  or  dominion. 


198  The  Christ-Law 

Dominion  is  to  have  the  certain  knowledge  of  obedience  to 
the  supreme  law  of  perfection;  this  is  to  have  perfect  control  of 
the  mind  power  of  knowing/  which  consists  in  knowing  and 
knowing  how  and  why  we  know. 

This  is  accomplished  through  expressing  the  principle  of  per- 
fect and  right  ideas  as  states  of  spiritual  being,  each  unit  of 
which  exists  within  our  conscience  or  soul  as  truth  in  action,  and 
in  this  way  are  we  expressors  of  the  one  righteous  Christ-law. 

Dominion  is  to  know  that  these  right  ideas  have  being  only 
and  are  real  and  true  spiritual  truth,  and  that  our  immortal  exis- 
tence consists  in  soul  expressions  of  them  through  the  law  of 
life-love-truth-meaning. 

But  not  until  we  gain  them  firmly  seated  in  conscience,  to  the 
utter  rout  of  all  opposing  errors  as  the  imaginary  ideas  of  the 
evil  sense-mind,  can  we  have  and  understand  the  power  of  their 
dominion,  which  is  inherent  in  every  perfect  idea. 

To  master  this  head  of  the  law  will  aid  us  greatly  in  gaining 
an  understanding  of  the  ideas  to  follow,  and  also  help  to  give 
us  a  better  knowledge  of  just  what  God,  as  the  Father-Mind  or 
Spirit  is.  For  God  is  to  be  known  to  us  as  a  power  of  Spirit  in 
presence,  not  manlike,  but  Spirit. 

This  question  of  what  God  is  has  troubled  people  for  ages, 
and  it  has  been  because  they  have  tried  to  see  him  through  the 
wicked,  evil,  deceiving,  mortal-sense-mind  interpretation  of  a 
God.  Which  was  just  as  confusing,  destructive  and  impotent 
as  mortal-sense  itself,  because  he  was  a  good  and  an  evil  spirit 
in  the  image  of  mortals.  How  could  they  understand  that  God  is 
Spirit,  while  looking  through  mortal  sense,  at  the  only  thing 
this  sense  is  able  to  see,  that  is  matter.^ 

We  must  awake  and  see  things  with  the  soul,  and  then  we 
shall  find  God.  We  shall  find  him  to  be  a  supreme  Spirit  as  a 
perfect  law  of  perfection. 


Dominion 


199 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Point  of  Dominion. 


Pominion 
impotence 


Infallibility 
Deception 


Control 
Surrender 


Power 
Helplessness 


Stability 

Certainty 

Constancy 

Success 

Achievement 

Mastery 

Authority 

Ability 

Finality 


Transition 

Chance 

Suspension 

Failure 
Defeat 
Servitude 

Pretense 

Futility 
Opinion 


DOMINION,  THE  Life  of  Truth,  versus  IMPOTENCE,  as 
A  Death  Concept. 

Impotence  is  a  very  blinding  and  destructive  state  of  belief 
in  the  mortal  consciousness.  To  believe  that  we  are  mortal  by 
right,  and  hopelessly  bound  to  serve  the  death  thoughts,  is  wholly 
wrong  and  unjust.  For  we  do  not  live  within  the  mortal  realm 
of  nothingness,  which  is  in  a  dead  sense  of  things,  but  instead 
within  a  live  intelligence  which  knows  one  supreme  law  of  good. 
Impotence  means  nothing  as  the  lack  of  something,  that  is  the 
absence  of  an  ability  to  do,  which  precludes  dominion. 

It  is  an  impotent  belief  for  us  to  believe  that  we  can  exercise 
our  God-given  dominion  before  we  discover  it  in  fact.  It  is 
self-evident  that  we  cannot  express  anything  that  is  not  within 
our  own  conscience,  and  not  until  we  become  pure,  that  is,  one 
with  the  righteous  law  will  we  be  able  to  live  right.  Furthermore, 
if  our  consciousness  is  clogged  with  the  least  doubt  of  the  power 
of  the  law  to  prevail,  then  this  impotent  concept  must  be  cast 
out  by  taking  into  thought  the  three  powers  of  Mind,  which  con- 
vince us  of  the  allness  of  life,  love,  truth.  We  cannot  hope  to 
overcome  the  mortal  concept  of  impotence  with  mortal  impotence, 
it  will  take  real  power  of  the  law  to  do  it. 

Dominion  is  master  over  impotence  every  time,  when  they  are 
placed  together  and  compared,  the  one  with  the  other,  dominion 
acts ;  impotence  does  not  act. 


200  The  Christ-Law 

INFALLIBILITY,  the  Truth  of  Dominion,  versus  DECEP- 
TION, AS  A   False   Concept. 

Deception  is  a  foolish  state  of  mortal  existence,  and  we  must 
not  be  deceived  by  harboring  this  evil  falsity  within  our  conscious- 
ness, for  when  once  it  gets  a  hold  upon  us  we  are  at  once  blinded 
by  it  and  both  defiled  and  destroyed  by  its  presence.  We  can- 
not practice  it  upon  another  without  receiving  the  harm  of  its 
presence  upon  ourselves,  because  deception  defiles  and  soils  every 
soul  which  comes  in  contact  with  it. 

Infallibility,  as  the  one  certain  and  absolute  law  of  right,  re- 
veals unto  us  absolute  Christianity,  and  there  is  none  other  Chris- 
tianity but  that  of  absolute  law,  righteousness.  This  can  be 
surely  trusted  and  does  no  one  any  death,  but  instead  reveals 
life  and  peace. 

CONTROL,  THE  Life  of  Dominion,  versus  SURRENDER,  as 
A  Death  Concept. 

Surrender  means  to  give  up  and  cease  to  know  right,  that  is 
to  deny  the  good  and  right  and  to  acknowledge  evil.  Surrender 
is  a  mortal  concept  only  and  pertains  to  conditions  of  material 
existence,  for  it  is  an  acknowledgement  of  impotent  presence. 
There  is  no  impotent  presence  nor  presence  of  impotence,  for  all 
of  that  which  lias  being  is  within  God's  kingdom  of  perfection. 
To  surrender  to  impotence  is  like  giving  up  to  nothingness,  to 
cease  to  use  our  God-given  will  to  do  the  right.  God's  law  of 
right  compels  us  to  live  and  express  him  in  every  right  idea 
as  a  state  of  consciousness  or  state  of  spiritual  being,  for  we 
cannot  surrender  right. 

POWER,  THE  Love  of  Dominion,  versus  HELPLESSNESS,  as 
A  Hate  Concept. 

Helplessness  within  the  mortal  consciousness  is  there  because 
we  do  not  know  God  as  the  power  of  Spirit  and  presence.  The 
presence  of  this  law  which  runs  the  universe;  and  we  receive 
our  supply  from  this  unfailing  source  of  good  and  right  only. 


Dominion  201 

We  are  helpless  only  in  our  own  thoughts  because  they  stray 
away  from  the  ever-present  law  of  good  and  right  through  mortal 
imaginations.  We  can  hope  only  to  get  right  by  following 
closely  the  things  of  the  law,  the  states  of  perfect  being  which 
God  made.  These  are  arranged  through  symbols  in  the  diagram 
of  the  Star,  and  can  be  learned  therein. 

STABILITY,  THE  Love  of  Infallibility,  versus  TRANSI- 
TION, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Transition  is  the  mortal  thought  of  ever  moving  from  place  to 
place,  and  from  form  to  form.  It  expresses  the  uncertainty  of 
mortality  in  the  sense  concept.  That  existence  here  in  this  world 
of  falsity,  which  cannot  be  accounted  for,  and  in  which  we  cannot 
stay  for  any  great  length  of  time. 

It  is  a  concept  apart  from  that  of  the  infallible  law  of  immor- 
tality, and  also  of  the  immutable  presence;  and  when  we  get 
close  enough  to  the  law  of  God,  we  learn  that  we  do  not  leave 
presence,  but  that  it  changes  its  material  appearance,  and  goes 
out  of  the  range  of  these  sense  organs. 

When  we  realize  that  nothing  can  take  us  out  of  the  hand  of 
God,  and  separate  us  from  his  care,  and  that  nothing  ever  has, 
then  we  shall  cease  to  be  afraid  and  shall  awake  and  follow  the 
law  of  good  only. 

CERTAINTY,  the  Truth  of  Infallibility,  versus  CHANCE, 
AS  A  False  Concept. 

Chance  is  a  most  subtle  concept  of  deception,  and  is  the  ruin 
of  many  a  clear  thought  of  certainty.  It  is  one  of  those  mysti- 
fied thoughts  which  goes  up  in  our  presence  to  blind  and  confuse 
us.  Its  subtle  attractiveness  is  a  terrible  error  of  distraction, 
for  we  receive  nothing,  more  times  than  anything  else,  as  our 
reward  of  indulging  in  its  allurement. 

From  the  spiritual  standpoint  we  receive  nothing  every  time 
from  chance,  because  the  law  is  infallible  certainty  only,  and 
this  certainty  destroys  all  fear,  which  is  known  as  chance. 


202  The  Christ-Law 

CONSTANCY,  the  Life  of  Infallibility,  versus  SUSPEN- 
SION, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Suspension  is  a  blinding  thought  of  mortal  cessation,  in  fear 
of  the  law  of  good  and  right,  being  destroyed.  As  if  presence 
could  be  wiped  out  for  a  time,  and  there  be  no  presence  because 
it  had  been  suspended. 

The  law  of  right  become  wrong,  just  for  a  change,  if  for  no 
other  reason,  but  as  we  know  that  we  have  one  law  of  perfection, 
and  that  it  prevails,  then  this  state  of  affairs  could  not  possibly  be. 

Constancy  represents  the  ever-living  law  of  perfection,  supreme 
above  everything  else,  and  intuitively  we  know  that  it  will  always 
continue. 

SUCCESS,  THE  Truth  of  Control,  versus  FAILURE  as  a 
False  Concept. 

Failure  is  nothing  at  all.  It  means  that  nothing  has  been  at- 
tempted, and  proves  to  us  that  nothingness  still  remains  nothing. 
Failure  has  no  real  meaning  in  the  presence  of  the  life,  love, 
truth  law,  because  it  is  nothing.  Failure  cannot  be  thought 
because  we  cannot  think  nothing,  to  think  at  all  means  to  think 
something  as  of  success,  which  has  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection,  none  of  which  is  manifest  by  failure. 

Failure  to  mortals  is  a  thing  of  fear,  and  this  is  because  we 
live  according  to  the  standard  of  mortals  in  good  and  evil  con- 
cepts. When  we  walk  in  the  law,  as  we  were  commanded,  then 
shall  we  find  success  and  be  delivered  from  the  illusion  of  failure 
as  a  law. 

ACHIEVEMENT,  the  Life  of  Control,  versus  DEFEAT,  as 
A  Death  Concept. 

Defeat  is  wholly  within  mortality,  for  there  is  nothing  within 
the  law  which  was  ever  defeated.  To  be  sure,  Jesus  was  cruci- 
fied in  the  flesh,  and  mortals  said  and  thought  that  they  killed 
him.  But  they  did  not  kill  him,  neither  defeat  his  spiritual  law 
of  life,  love,  truth,  and  these  evil,  impotent  mortals  never  will. 


Dominion  208 

This  law  is  an  indestructible  immortality  called  life^  which  never 
dies. 

We  get  our  concept  of  defeat  from  experience  with  mortal  im- 
potence as  the  fleshly  existence  in  this  world's  transitions,  those 
things  which  go  out  of  sight,,  or  out  of  range  of  motrals,  and 
which  give  the  sense  of  defeat. 

MASTERY,  THE  Love  of  Control,  versus  SERVITUDE,  as  a 
Hate  Concept. 

Servitude  is  a  concept  of  slavery,  the  fear  of  not  doing  that 
which  mortals  tell  us  to  do,  because  seemingly  they  have  more 
physical  power  than  we  have.  This  is  not  and  has  nothing  to 
do  with  the  law  of  the  Christ,  which  says  that  obedience  is  the 
life  of  love,  and  does  not  consider  any  mortal  or  their  laws. 
Mastery  is  to  abide  within  the  law  of  the  perfect  Christ,  and  we 
cannot  be  under  the  bondage  to  mortals  in  servitude,  and  under 
freedom  in  the  Christ-law  also.  We  must  deny  one  or  the  other, 
and  this  means  to  serve  the  law  in  obedience  as  the  life  of 
love,  for  we  can  do  no  other  way. 

AUTHORITY,  the  Life  of  Power,  versus  PRETENSE  as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Pretense  is  a  foolish  mortal-sense  belief,  for  mortality  only 
senses  its  errors  as  something.  But  pretense  is  not  a  part  of  an 
infallible  law  of  good,  because  pretense  in  its  very  nature  is 
not  anything  at  all.  It  seems  to  be  something,  but  is  nothing- 
ness without  meaning,  a  sense  suggestion  only  without  substance. 
A  mortal  imagination  of  its  own  being  in  impotence  and  confu- 
sion, as  a  negative  something  without  fact  or  truth  behind  it. 
But  authority  abides  within  the  law,  and  has  both  fact  and  sub- 
stance behind  it;  it  prevails  against  pretense  and  saves  us  from 
becoming  nothing  in  the  pretense  of  mortality  as  being  something. 

ABILITY,  THE  Love  of  Power,  versus  FUTILITY,  as  a  Hate 

Concept. 

Futility  is  the  mortal  concept  that  we  are  mortal,  and  in  mor- 
tality that  we  are  helpless  and  have  no  ability.     But  when  we 


204  The  Christ-Law 

learn  of  dominion  and  gain  its  power  as  our  rightful  state  of 
spiritual  being,  then  we  prevail  against  this  futility  concept  of 
the  mortal. 

Futility  is  vicious  in  its  suggestion,  for  it  strikes  at  the  very 
center  of  mind-action.  When  we  are  ready  to  give  up  these 
mortal  concepts  as  something  good  and  much  to  be  desired  and 
turn  to  our  rightful  dominion,  we  shall  find  God's  word  already 
within  our  heart's  conscience  to  give  us  a  helping  hand,  and  our 
expressions  shall  become  spiritual  and  right. 

FINALITY,  THE  Truth  of  Power,  versus  OPINION,  as  a 
False  Concept. 

Opinion  is  a  subtle  excuse  for  mortal  guesses,  also  a  ruse  to 
inaugurate  chance  as  a  thing  of  substance.  Its  whole  intent  is 
an  acknowledgement  of  the  lack  of  knowing.  Things  of  the 
law  are  not  things  of  opinion,  but  things  of  immutable  fact,  which 
stand  of  their  own  strength  and  are  able  to  prevail  every  time — 
this  is  our  concept  of  finality,  from  which  there  is  no  appeal. 
Mortals  claim  to  know  something  apart  from  the  one  righteous 
law,  but  they  do  not,  for  there  is  nothing  apart  from  Christ 
and  his  law  of  perfection.  He  is  all,  and  there  is  not  more  than 
all.  Finality  is  the  testimony  of  truth  as  spiritual  prevailing, 
which  teaches  us  all  that  we  know. 

How  TO  Know  Dominion. 

Having  gone  over  the  preceding  pages  carefully  and  gained 
the  understanding  of  the  allness  of  the  good  ideas,  and  given 
our  allegiance  to  them,  thereby  casting  out  from  consciousness 
the  mortal  imaginations  of  their  opposites,  which  seem  to  have 
power  to  prevail  against  the  good;  then  we  are  ready  to  proceed 
with  the  next  step  and  clinch  our  knowledge  of  the  allness  of  the 
good  through  an  understanding  of  the  tables. 

It  is  the  knowing  of  these  spiritual  states  of  being  which  are 
in  the  image  and  likeness  of  our  Father-Mind  or  Spirit  that  is 
to  endow  us  with  healing  power.  They  must  be  clearly  and  per- 
fectly understood  and  also  be  uncontaminated  with  mortal  laws 


Dominion  205 

and  selfish  intents,  before  we  can  realize  the  power  of  spirit 
in  its  purity  and  be  able  to  use  it  in  his  name  to  overcome  error 
in  any  form. 

The  healing  power  of  God's  law  is  sure  and  certain,  and  con- 
sists in  declaring  this  law  with  understanding.  When  this  is 
done  we  get  like  it  in  spiritual  being,  which  takes  us  out  of  the 
mortal  concepts,  and  we  receive  relief  from  our  error  expres- 
sions. The  body  easily  and  naturally  takes  form  in  perfect 
unison  and  harmony  with  the  right  concepts  of  mind-action,  for 
we  are  spiritual  in  truth  and  not  material. 

We  think  that  we  are  material,  but  we  are  not,  and  we  are 
deceived  because  we  look  through  the  material  eyes  instead  of 
through  the  eye  of  the  soul,  which  is  understanding.  We  cannot 
ever  find  out  anything  about  God  through  these  five  deceiving 
material  sense  organs,  for  their  testimony  is  one  continuous  lie 
as  a  false  interpretation. 

For  this  reason  we  shall  have  to  abide  with  each  symbol  until 
we  see  with  the  soul  or  understand  the  spiritual  meaning  of  life- 
action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection,  and  are  able  to  apply  it 
to  our  daily  lives. 

This  association  of  the  law  to  our  daily  lives  is  the  one  thing 
which  we  are  to  learn;  it  will  come  gradually  into  our  conscious- 
ness if  we  persist  in  its  use,  honestly  striving  to  gain  the  habit 
of  seeing  with  the  soul,  instead  of  with  the  blind  eye  of  mortality. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
Star. 

The  Tables  in  the  Sixth  Point  of  the  Star  of  Dominion. 

Table  One. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Truth  equals  love's  substantial 
Dominion. 

Table  Two. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Dominion  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Infallibility. 

The  life-action  of  active  Dominion  equals  life's  active  Control. 


206  The  Christ-Law 

The  love-substance  of  active  Dominion  equals  truth's  perfect 
Power. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Dominion^  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Infallibility,  Control,  Power.  These  three  ideas  represent 
Dominion. 

Table  Three. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Infallibility  equals  life's  active 
Stability. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Infallibility  equals  truth's  per- 
fect Certainty. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Infallibility  equals  love's  substan- 
tial Constancy. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  developed  meaning  of  the  Christ- 
Mind  of  Infallibility  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are  Sta- 
bility, Certainty,  Constancy.  These  three  ideas  represent  Infal- 
libility. 

Table  Four. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Control  equals  love's  substantial 
Success. 

The  life-action  of  active  Control  equals  life's  active  Achieve- 
ment. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Control  equals  truth's  perfect 
Mastery. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  .the 
Christ-Mind  of  Control,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are  Suc- 
cess, Achievement,  Mastery.    These  three  ideas  represent  Control. 

Table  Five. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Power  equals  truth's  perfect 
Authority. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Power  equals  love's  substan- 
tial Ability. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Power  equals  life's  active 
Finality. 


Dominion  207 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  developed  meaning  of  the  Christ- 
Mind  of  Power^  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind^  are  Authority, 
Ability,  Finality.    These  ideas  represent  Power. 

The  careful  study  of  these  ideas  as  states  of  soul  expression 
within  the  law  of  the  perfect  Christ,  will  reveal  his  being  and 
presence;  for  did  he  not  say,  **Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway.f**' 

We  must  persist  in  our  looking  with  intent  to  see  things  with 
the  soul,  whereby  we  shall  perceive  their  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection,  and  lose  sight  of  the  mortal  concepts 
through  the  material  sense-deception.  As  we  gain  an  under- 
standing of  the  good  we  shall  see  that  it  is  the  presence  of  the 
Christ  in  absolute  Christianity,  and  in  this  concept  we  shall  be 
delivered  from  allegiance  to  the  mortal-sense  imagination  of 
worldly  presence  and  power.  From  the  things  which  are  in- 
tended to  hide  a  clear  thought  of  the  righteous  Christ  as  pres- 
ence^ by  demanding  that  we  divide  our  allegiance  with  mortality. 

The  Relation  of  the  Spiritual  Concepts  in  Dominion. 

The  relation  of  the  spiritual  states  of  consciousness,  which  are 
represented  in  the  sixth  point  of  the  Star;  and  how  to  study 
them  that  we  may  realize  their  power  over  us,  for  they  are  the 
powers  of  Mind  which  prevail  against  the  mortal  imaginations 
and  which,  compel  us  to  know. 

Dominion  is  the  second  stage  of  our  progress  into  the  kingdom 
of  real  being.  When  we  have  gained  the  understanding  of 
dominion  we  shall  come  into  the  possession  of  immortal  being 
and  realize  our  real  selfhood,  thereby  gaining  perfect  obedience 
to  the  Christ  law. 

It  will  be  seen  that  obedience,  dominion,  being,  are  the  three 
life  ideas  within  the  three  realms  of  love,  truth,  life,  and  that 
they  are  wholly  spiritual  and  do  not  consider  anything  material. 

Infallibility  as  the  truth  of  dominion  is  in  association  with 
demonstration,  for  it  must  be  an  infallible  demonstration  if 
truth  and  good:  We  know  that  every  work  of  God  is  both  infal- 
lible and  demonstrable,  just  as  our  Saviour  said  that  it  was. 
Again    infallibility    and    demonstration    are    in    association    with 


208  The  Christ-Law 

peace^  for  infallible  demonstration  must  of  a  necessity  reveal 
peace. 

Control  as  the  life  of  dominion  is  in  association  with  sagacity 
in  the  realm  of  life^  and  with  unity  in  the  realm  of  love.  These 
three  words  reveal  the  law,  for  a  controlling  sagacity  unifies 
all  things  in  one  law. 

Out  of  law  and  order  is  infallibility  revealed,  and  out  of  order 
and  infallibility  is  the  concept  of  control  given  unto  us ;  from 
infallibility  and  control  we  get  power,  which  is  an  understanding 
that  there  is  no  other  source  of  power  than  this  spiritual  one. 

Therefore  an  infallible  controlling  power  is  that  which  dem- 
onstrates dominion,  without  which  we  could  not  even  think.  Jesus 
said  that  if  we  could  give  up  our  evil  mortal  imaginations  and 
believe  in  this  power  of  Spirit  as  all  and  final,  that  we  should 
do  the  works  which  he  did. 

Out  of  the  concept  of  regulation  and  fulfillment  comes  the 
thought  of  stability,  as  a  realized  state  of  spiritual  being,  both 
firm  and  fast;  from  fulfillment  and  stability  comes  certainty, 
that  comforting  state  of  being  in  which  is  no  doubt.  Out  of 
stability  and  certainty  comes  constancy,  for  we  cannot  separate 
them.  These  three  ideas  give  us  the  Christ  meaning  of  infalli- 
bility, that  is  the  love-truth-life-meaning  of  infallibility. 

Out  of  certainty  and  constancy  comes  success,  from  constancy 
and  success  we  get  the  thought  of  achievement,  and  from  success 
and  achievement  we  understand  mastery.  These  ideas  of  success, 
achievement  and  mastery   give  us   an  understanding  of   control. 

From  achievement  and  mastery  we  perceive  authority ;  and  from 
mastery  and  authority  comes  ability,  while  from  authority  and 
ability  we  perceive  finality;  Jesus  spoke  with  finality  because 
he  knew.  These  states  of  consciousness,  when  known,  will  give 
us  dominion. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  the  Law  of  Dominion. 
The  Sixth  Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20:2  and  13  (Because),  "I  am  the  Lord  thy  God 
which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the 
house  of  bondage."     Therefore  our  conscience  shall  be  of  life- 


Dominion  209 

action  only;  because  we  are  brought  up  out  of  error  we  shall  be 
free  from  intentions  of  destruction,  even  as  given  in  the  sixth 
commandment. 

"Thou  shalt  not  kill." 

Because  we  have  acquired  the  concept  of  the  allness  of  good 
in  life-action  we  shall  not  know  or  think  destruction  in  any  way. 
It  will  be  our  whole  effort  to  express  life-action  only. 

This  commandment  is  given  as  a  sacred  promise  of  that  which 
will  follow  the  life  within  the  law,  in  God's  kingdom  here  upon 
the  earth.  When  we  stop  to  think  as  to  whether  the  power  of 
the  threat  of  evil  has  ever  aided  us  any  in  the  keeping  of  the 
commandments,  or  gave  us  any  ability  to  turn  from  the  intent 
to  kill,  we  find  that  it  has  not.  But  has  forced  us  into  secrecy 
and  still  worse  into  deception,  and  has  no  power  to  help  us  in 
any  way  whatsoever.  When  this  same  commandment  is  given 
without  the  vail  as  a  threat  of  evil,  it  becomes  a  sacred  promise 
in  the  new  covenant  of  the  Christ  perfection.  It  is  because  we 
know  the  good  within  the  three  powers  of  Mind  to  deliver  us 
from  evil,  that  we  shall  withhold  our  hands  from  killing  any- 
thing. We  shall  not  have  the  thought  to  kill,  but  have  one  of 
to  live,  and  to  make  to  live  in  its  place. 

The  Sixth  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5 :8  we  read  the  sixth  beatitude  with  its  dominion. 

"Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart:  for  they  shall  see  God." 

The  pure  in  heart  are  those  souls  who  have  come  under  the 
influence  of  the  Christ-Mind,  and  know  the  life-love-truth-Law. 
They  will  have  gained  the  concept  of  perfection  through  expres- 
sions of  the  right  ideas  in  this  law,  and  live  from  day  to  day  the 
manifest  life-love-truth-meaning  of  Christ's  perfect  being.  The 
fact  of  the  presence  of  loveliness  reveals  the  dominion  of  Mind 
in  us. 

We  as  active  spiritual  mentalities,  as  children  of  God,  shall 
perceive  the  power  of  Spirit  in  our  midst,  and  know  that  it  is 
God's  presence,  and  understand  the  dominion  of  the  law  as  the 
life-action  of  good  or  God. 


210  The  Christ-Law 

The  Lord^s  Prayer. 
In  Matt.  6:12  we  read  the  sixth  section  of  the  Lord's  prayer. 
"And  forgive  us  our  debts  as  we  forgive  our  debtors." 
Forgive^  that  is   utterly   destroy   from   our   consciousness    the 
sense-beliefs  and  unlawful  results  of  false  thinking.     Reveal  unto 
us  the  dominion  of  Mind^  whose  power  for  good  is  to  destroy 
our  evil  thoughts  in  proportion  to  our  use  of  the  good  thoughts. 
When  we  learn  to  live  in  loveliness  then  we  have  forgiven  our 
neighbor^  for  we  cannot  have  love  and  hate  in  consciousness  to- 
gether.      Now     just     in     proportion     to     our     manifest     loveli- 
ness shall  we  be  delivered  from  our  transgression  of  the  law, 
which   is   honest   and   right   and  just.      Therefore,   through   the 
dominion   of  the  law   of  love   shall   we   become   right   and   free 
from  evil. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  6:24  to  34  we  read  of  dominion  and  how  Jesus  ex- 
plains its  power  for  good.  But  the  demands  of  absolute  Chris- 
tianity were  at  that  time,  and  are  now  also,  so  uncompromising 
with  the  mortal,  that  it  seems  almost  impossible  to  acquire  it; 
but  we  must  not  forget  that  this  statement  is  a  mortal  law,  made 
by  mortals  in  order  to  hide  the  law  and  defeat  its  attainment. 
The  truth  about  it  is  this,  if  it  were  not  absolute  we  could  not 
learn  it  at  all ;  and  unless  we  absolutely  turn  from  the  evil,  con- 
cepts of  mortality  we  cannot  understand.  All  law  is  absolute  or 
it  is  not  law;  mortal  imaginations  are  not  law  because  not 
absolute. 

Jesus  begins  with  the  statement,  "No  man  can  serve  two  mas- 
ters," that  is  the  two  opposing  interpretations  of  sense  and 
soul  cannot  both  be  expressed  and  demonstrated  as  absolute  law. 

We  can  easily  see  that  it  is  our  absolute  obedience  to  the  laws 
of  mathematics  which  brings  us  in  touch  with  the  dominion  of 
the  law  or  principle  of  mathematics. 

Jesus  says  very  plainly  that  we  cannot  serve  truth  and  the 
lie ;  right  and  wrong ;  God  as  perfect  law  and  devil  as  deception ; 
and  ever  get  any  understanding  free  from  confusion.  We  can- 
not abide  within  the  lawful  thoughts  and  unlawful  thoughts  also 
and  ever  gain  dominion  as  an  understanding. 


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With  this  idea  of  God's  perfect  power  or  dominion  ruling  all 
things  for  good^  and  good  only^  we  can  see  that  there  is  no 
harmony  of  being  anywhere  else.  Jesus  says  for  us  not  to 
insert  our  own  willful  sense-opinions  and  seeming  ability  instead 
of  the  law,  or  in  the  place  of  the  law,  if  we  would  find  harmony 
of  being.  He  says  for  us  to  give  up  the  thought  that  we  are 
living  materially,  and  take  on  the  understanding  that  we  are 
living  spiritually;  and  that  the  things  which  We  eat  and  wear, 
etc.,  are  of  small  consequence  in  proporition  to  the  real  life  in 
Mind.  He  says  is  not  this  life  of  immortality  much  more  to  us 
than  the  meat  which  we  may  need  in  this  mortal  state  of  exis- 
tence.^ For  the  material  things  are  of  very  little  consequence  in 
comparison  to  immortal  life. 

Jesus  refers  to  the  body,  the  spiritual  mentality  of  truth  ex- 
pressed, as  being  much  more  in  value  than  the  raiment  of  mate- 
rial goods  which  is  put  upon  it. 

Jesus  calls  our  attention  to  the  things  around  about  us,  all  of 
which  are  the  direct  result  of  the  perfect  law  of  truth's  dominion ; 
and  he  says  that  they  are  all  governed  and  controlled  by  the 
Father,  and  that  it  is  because  of  the  dominion  of  God  in  them 
that  they  are  perfected  and  continue  in  being.  The  birds  neither 
I  sow  nor  reap,  nor  do  they  gather  into  barns,  but  through  obeying 
the  power  of  the  law  in  instinct  they  are  guided  to  food  and  care, 
and  are  protected.  Then  he  says  are  ye  not  as  the  highest  idea 
of  God's  creation  of  much  more  value  than  these  birds,  flowers 
and  lesser  creations.  Man  has  the  ability  to  think  in  perfect 
unison  with  the  law  in  reason  and  judgment,  and  can  express 
perfect  states  of  being  with  their  dominion,  therefore  he  should 
all  the  more  express  God's  being. 

Next  Jesus  refers  to  this  animal-sense-mind,  which  is  so  domi- 
nant in  the  affairs  of  this  life  here  in  the  world,  and  says,  ''Which 
of  you  by  taking  thought  can  add  one  cubit  to  his  stature.^" 
This  is  but  another  way  of  saying  that  mortal  thought  is  impo- 
tent, and  is  no  part  of  the  dominion  of  divine  Mind.  If  we  are 
impotent  in  our  willful  mortal  thoughts  and  unable  to  do  anything 
within  the  law  of  ourselves,  then  why  take  thought  for  food  and 
clothing,  as  if  we  could  provide  them  independent  of  God? 


212  The  Christ-Law 

Jesus  says  that  we  must  live  closely  in  touch  with  the  dominion 
of  truth  in  action  or  God's  dominion  of  good.  That  we  must 
agree  with  the  law  as  God  made  it,  and  that  then  we  shall  find 
all  things  right  and  good. 

This  one  law  absolute  in  its  ruling  governs  us  and  the  lily  of 
the  field,  and  the  lily  is  more  in  harmony  with  the  law  than 
Solomon  in  all  of  his  mortal  aggrandizement. 

Again  Jesus  cries  aloud  for  the  prevailing  of  his  Father's  won- 
derful law  of  good  in  the  dominion  of  truth,  for  he  says  that 
his  Father,  in  his  great  wisdom,  has  provided  for  all  of  his 
creatures,  and  reveals  unto  each  that  which  is  right  and  good  to 
do,  if  we  will  but  listen  to  him.  Why  should  we  have  so  much 
faith  in  our  ways  and  so  little  in  God's  law  of  spiritual  dominion  ? 
We  must  learn  to  obey  the  law,  for  it  alone  is  dominion. 

Jesus  tells  us  that  it  is  our  lack  of  faith  and  obedience  to  this 
law  which  is  the  cause  of  so  much  failure  in  our  lives,  and  that 
when  we  come  in  close  touch  with  the  law,  and  use  it,  then  will 
all  things  go  aright. 

Jesus  tells  us  not  to  take  thought  for  our  mortal  future,  for 
God  has  that  in  his  care,  and  our  effort  to  guide  things  will 
blind  us  to  the  greater  future  which  he  has  provided  for  us. 
Our  will  must  be  attuned  in  perfect  accord  with  the  divine  Mind, 
the  will  of  good,  that  our  desires  may  be  successful. 

How  many  times  have  we  failed  in  our  own  willful  efforts 
to  do  something  which  we  very  much  desired,  and  setting  out 
with  the  fortification  of  mortal  experiences  only  we  expect  to 
accomplish  it;  soon  we  run  into  the  law  of  truth  and  find  our 
impotence  is  of  no  use,  circumstances  do  not  come  right  that 
we  may  gratify  our  lust  for  gain  at  the  expense  of  our  brother, 
and  it  is  because  there  is  no  such  thing  within  the  law,  and  also 
that  the  law  is  all  dominion. 

Jesus  tells  us  that  his  Father  already  knows  just  what  is  good 
for  his  creatures  and  has  provided  it  in  abundance. 

In  summing  it  all  up  Jesus  says  that  the  Gentiles  seek  after 
these  things  in  this  way,  and  that  it  is  because  they  do  not  know 
the  law  of  good,  but  look  at  the  things  of  this  world  only. 


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Then  Jesus  says^  "Seek  ye  first  the  kingdom  of  God  and  his 
righteousness,"  that  is  to  express  the  law  perfectly,  wherein  we 
shall  understand  a  perfect  way  to  succeed  through  knowing  that 
which  is  always  dominion  in  our  hands,  because  it  is  divine 
law  and  not  mortal  imagination.  In  this  way  shall  all  things 
be  added  unto  us  surely  and  rightfully,  because  we  work  accord- 
ing to  a  perfect  law. 

He  says,  moreover,  **Take  no  thought  for  the  morrow,"  but 
learn  to  abide  within  the  law  at  all  times,  in  the  ever  present 
now  of  being;  and  that  sufficient  error  is  in  this  ever-present 
mortal  imagination  of  now,  to  keep  us  busy  without  going  into 
the  future,  but  when  we  are  able  to  take  care  of  the  now,  then 
will  the  future  take  care  of  itself. 

This  part  of  the  sermon  on  the  mount  is  a  most  wonderful 
statement  of  dominion  and  its  result  upon  those  who  hear  it 
and  obey  the  law. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

INTELLIGENCE 

The  Truth  of  Life. 

A  Law  of  Redemption  From  Mortal  Temptation. 

In  the  fourth  chapter  of  Matthew  is  given  a  description  of  how 
Jesus  was  tempted  by  the  suggestions  of  the  evil  consciousness 
or  devil  through  the  material  sense  appearance  of  things.  He 
was  tempted  (but  did  not  yield)  to  depart  from  his  knowledge 
of  the  realm  of  life  as  true  intelligence^  and  entertain  materi- 
ality as  something  real  good  and  true.  Firsts  he  was  tried  by 
that  which  opposes  life-action  as  spiritual  thought^  which  is,  the 
mortal  concept  of  death.  Second,  by  that  which  opposes  truth 
as  the  lawful  concepts  of  right  ideas,  which  are  the  false  mortal 
imaginations  or  lie.  Third,  by  that  which  opposes  love  as  the 
spiritual  concept  of  good,  which  is,  the  material  lust  for  earthly 
possessions.  These  temptations  cover  all  manner  of  temptations 
and  are  just  as  applicable  to  men  of  today  as  at  any  time. 

Jesus^  Temptation  in  the  Realm  of  Life. 

In  Matt.  4:1  we  read,  "Then  was  Jesus  led  up  of  the  spirit  into 
the  wilderness  to  be  tempted  of  the  devil." 

Jesus  was  led  of  his  own  investigative  spirit  to  look  from  the 
realm  of  intelligence  into  the  claims  of  material  suggestion,  com- 
ing from  outer  darkness  through  sense  appearance,  that  is,  the 
impressions  and  assumptions  of  mortal  sense  interpretations.  He 
would  know  their  points  of  temptation  and  refute  them  for  our 
benefit. 

In  Matt.  4:2  we  read,  ^'And  when  he  had  fasted  forty  days 
and  forty  nights  he  was  afterwards  an  hungred." 

And  when  he  had  spent  this  time  in  the  wilderness  of  material 
sense  testimony  as  a  place  of  deception  apart  from  the  realm 


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of  true  intelligence^  and  had  compared  the  light  of  understand- 
ing or  day  thought^  with  the  darkness  of  confusion  as  the  night 
thought,  he  found  them  to  be  opposing  forces.  One  was  some- 
thing with  life-action,  while  the  other  was  nothingness  without 
life-action,  and  after  this  he  hungered  for  the  realm  of  true  intel- 
ligence that  he  might  receive  nourishment  as  understanding. 

In  Matt.  4:3  we  read,  "And  when  the  tempter  came  to  him 
he  said,  **If  thou  be  the  Son  of  God,  command  that  these  stones 
be  made  bread.'' 

When  the  tempter^  as  the  deceiving  mortal  sense  suggestion, 
demanded  that  Jesus  acknowledge  matter  as  stones  having  a  life- 
giving  power,  or  rather  for  Jesus  to  make  of  matter  a  reality 
endowed  with  life-giving  power,  then  Jesus  refused  to  do  so. 

The  intended  sting  of  offense  given  by  evil  suggestion  in  that 
insinuating  "If"  was  to  goad  Jesus  on  to  do  this  thing  if  he 
had  any  pride  in  his  own  power,  and  it  is  typical  of  all  evil 
suggestion  intended  to  cause  hateful  mistrust,  pride  or  doubt 
of  the  allness  of  good.  Then  follows  in  brazen  cunning  the 
assumption  and  demand,  "Command  that  these  stones  be  made 
bread." 

Evil  would  have  the  mortal  interpretations  in  all  their  false- 
ness made  permanent,  which  would  make  the  devil  himself  real 
having  power.  This  would  hold  us  down  and  bind  us  forever 
in  imperfect  concepts  of  confusion. 

In  Matt.  4:4  we  read,  "But  he  answered  and  said,  "It  is 
written,  man  shall  not  live  by  bread  alone,  but  by  every  word 
that  proceedeth  out  of  the  mouth  of  God." 

Here  we  see  that  Jesus  answered  satan  to  the  point,  and  that 
his  answer  was  final,  because  it  was  in  accord  with  God's  will 
and  true.  To  have  being  as  a  real  immortal  power  bestowed 
upon  material  imaginations  as  sense  appearances  would  interfere 
with  God's  law  of  spiritual  perfection.  When  we  turn  to  Deut. 
8  :S  we  read,  "And  he  humbled  thee  and  suffered  thee  to  hunger, 
and  fed  thee  with  manna  which  thou  knewest  not,  neither  did  thy 
fathers  know,  that  he  might  make  thee  know,  that  man  doth  not 
live  by  bread  only,  but  by  every  word  that  proceedeth  out  of 
the  mouth  of  the  Lord  doth  man  live." 


216  The  Christ-Law 

From  this  it  is  very  evident  that  real  life  is  in  Mind  only, 
while  sense  imaginations  are  but  death.  The  spiritual  states  of 
consciousness  expressed  by  us,  which  are  in  the  image  and  like- 
ness of  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit  constitute  alone  immortal  life. 
We  are  to  know  that  man  does  not  live  in  material  imaginations 
as  appearances  of  matter,  for  they  are  but  sense  suggestions 
and  profit  nothing. 

This  first  temptation  did  not  deceive  Jesus  nor  confuse  him 
in  regard  to  life  and  death  by  including  them  both  as  real  and 
true,  for  Jesus  denied  the  sense  concept  of  death  as  power  with 
life-action,  and  extolled  the  life  in  Mind  as  being  all  good  and 
truth.  He  refused  a  life-giving  power  to  matter  and  stated 
plainly  that  life  is  in  Mind  alone  as  the  expression  of  right 
ideas  in  the  law  of  Intelligence. 

Jesus  is  Next  Tempted  Within  the  Realm  of  Truth. 

In  Matt.  4:5  we  read,  "Then  the  devil  taketh  him  up  into  the 
holy  city  and  setteth  him  on  a  pinnacle  of  the  temple.'* 

Herein  this  same  deceiving  sense  suggestion  as  devil  in  its 
cunning  subtlety  reminds  Jesus  of  his  power  spiritually.  It  sug- 
gests self-righteousness  and  takes  him  into  a  concept  of  holiness 
and  places  him  on  the  highest  pinnacle  of  spiritual  power.  Jesus 
being  endowed  with  this  power  in  the  temple  or  residing  place  of 
God.  This  is  a  very  subtle  effort  of  evil  to  separate  Jesus  from 
God  by  causing  him  to  behold  himself  as  power  in  the  place  of 
God,  and  it  is  followed  by  a  tempting  argument  intended  to  make 
Jesus  sin. 

In  Matt.  4:6  we  read,  "And  said  unto  him,  "If  thou  be  the 
Son  of  God,  cast  thyself  down:  for  it  is  written  that  he  shall  give 
his  angels  charge  concerning  thee,  and  in  their  hands  they  shall 
bear  thee  up,  lest  at  any  time  thou  dash  thy  foot  against  a  stone." 

Herein  is  that  offensive  **IF''  again  repeated  and  a  subtle 
demand  also  made  that  a  spiritual  truth  be  proven  by  a  material 
sign.  The  evil  mortal  sense  goes  further  in  self-justification  by 
quoting  scripture  in  an  effort  to  gain  recognition.  The  demand 
is  that  Jesus  tempt  God  by  departing  from  his  law  of  perfection, 
not  by  casting  his  material  body  down  from  a  material  building, 


Intelligence  217 

but  to  cast  himself  down  into  the  pit  of  unclean  things  of  thought. 
The  devil  as  mortal  sense  suggestion  of  evil  would  have  Jesus 
take  a  chance  with  the  attractions  and  distractions  of  material 
sensations.  Evil  would  have  him  tempt^  that  is  try  or  depart 
from  the  law  of  truth  and  right,  which  remains  irrevocably  cer- 
tain in  its  prevailing  against  evil  or  error.  Jesus  knew  that 
by  his  thoughts  and  acts  would  he  be  judged,  for  they  would 
constitute  his  being  or  expression  of  being,  therefore  he  declined 
to  cast  himself  down  into  the  fury  of  the  pit  of  uncleanness  and 
be  defiled  in  the  realm  of  outer  darkness,  and  did  not  try  them 
just  for  the  sake  of  their  experience.  Jesus  knew  how  to  obey 
God's  command  to  be  perfect  in  spiritual  expression,  and  when 
evil  said  to  him  not  to  be  afraid,  but  to  cast  himself  down  into 
the  pit  of  unclean  thoughts,  he  knew  that  God  nor  God's  angels 
would  not  follow  him  there  nor  uphold  him  in  doing  so. 

In  Matt.  4:7  we  read  where  Jesus  said  unto  him,  **It  is  writ- 
ten again.  Thou  shalt  not  tempt  the  Lord  thy  God." 

Again  Jesus  refutes  this  eifort  to  make  him  sin  in  tempting 
the  power  of  truth  to  prevail  against  him,  for  having  gone  down 
into  the  pit.  He  knew  that  he  could  not  for  one  moment  desert, 
doubt  or  refrain  from  the  law  of  perfection  and  thereby  tempt 
God's  mercy,  because  of  the  ever-present  power  of  the  law  to 
prevail  against  evil.  And  again  the  answer  of  Jesus  was  con- 
vincing and  final,  for  it  put  the  devil  to  flight. 

In  Exodus  17:1  to  8  we  read  where  the  children  of  Israel 
tempted  the  Lord  and  departed  from  his  protection,  care  and 
mercy,  for  they  said,  **Is  the  Lord  among  us  or  not.'^"  They  no 
longer  trusted  him  because  of  the  press  of  material  conditions. 
They  departed  from  declaring  his  law  of  good  under  all  circum- 
stances, and  depending  upon  his  mercy  and  loving  kindness, 
therein  they  tempted  the  Lord  and  reaped  the  prevailing  power 
of  the  law  of  truth  as  a  flame  of  fire  which  they  called  evil. 

Then  God  proved  to  them  his  power  and  goodness,  for  he 
commanded  Moses  to  go  forth  and  give  them  water  from  the 
rock;  that  is  to  refresh  and  enlighten  them  with  concepts  of  the 
law  of  good  or  love. 


SI 8  The  Christ-Law 

Next  Comes  the  Temptation  Within  the  Realm  of  Love. 
In  Matt.  4:8  and  9  we  read^  "Again  the  devil  taketh  him  up 
into  an  exceeding  high  mountain:  and  sheweth  him  all  the  king- 
doms of  the  worlds  and  the  glory  of  them."  And  saith  unto  him, 
**A11  these  things  will  I  give  unto  thee  if  thou  wilt  fall  down  and 
worship  me." 

Evil  as  mortal  sense  suggestion  causes  Jesus  to  take  account 
of  the  grandeur^  display  and  seemingly  desirable  things  of  the 
material  world.  He  is  given  a  strong  sense  of  their  glory  and 
an  exalted  impression  of  their  value,  but  he  sees  that  these  things 
are  the  ones  which  darken  our  understanding  of  the  power  and 
presence  of  good  as  spiritual  law. 

The  worldly  things  of  beginning  and  end  oppose  the  immor- 
tal things  of  spiritual  good,  because  the  worldly  things  are 
those  of  confusion  and  fury  and  not  to  be  understood.  Evil  said 
in  suggestion,  all  these  worldly  things,  the  things  of  outer  dark- 
ness which  are  not  understood,  will  I,  the  deceiving  sense,  give 
unto  you  if  you  will  but  worship  them  and  me. 

If  Jesus  had  accepted  these  things  he  would  have  been  in  con- 
fusion and  fear,  and  this  was  what  the  devil  wanted,  for  he  would 
have  separated  Jesus  from  God's  love. 

Jesus  saw  nothing  in  accumulating  great  worldly  possessions 
but  distraction  and  confusion,  for  there  is  no  life  or  intelligence 
in  them. 

In  Matt.  4:10  we  read,  **Then  said  Jesus  unto  him.  Get  thee 
hence  Satan  (sense  suggestion),  for  it  is  written,  Thou  shalt 
worship  the  Lord  thy  God  and  him  only  shalt  thou  serve." 

In  Deut.  6:5  we  read,  "Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God 
with  all  thy  heart,  and  with  all  thy  soul,  and  with  all  thy  might." 

The  Lord  thy  God,  as  the  presence  of  the  power  of  Spirit  in 
the  supreme  law  of  perfection,  is  to  be  loved  with  all  of  our 
heart's  love;  is  to  be  expressed  with  all  of  our  soul's  understand- 
ing; and  is  to  be  maintained  with  all  of  our  might  of  truth. 
The  orderly  arrangement  of  this  law  is  given  in  the  Star  of 
Bethlehem,  where  we  are  taught  to  know  the  allness  of  good  and 
cease  to  be  afraid. 


Intelligence  219 

Moses  and  Jesus  both  said  that  we  were  to  give  our  entire 
time  and  lives  to  performing  the  law's  right  way  in  all  that  we 
did^  and  to  continuously  follow  after  the  word  of  God  in  under- 
standing life^  love^  truth. 

These  three  temptations^  given  in  this  chapter,  cover  all  man- 
ner of  temptation,  for  they  are  arranged  under  the  heads  of  life, 
truth,  love.  They  are  made  null  and  void  of  power  and  effect 
through  knowing  the  three  powers  of  Mind  as  the  law  of  life, 
love,  truth,  which  refute  them.  To  know  the  law  of  action  and 
perfection  of  spiritual  substance  will  deliver  us  from  errors,  just 
as  it  delivered  our  Saviour  in  his  temptations. 

Intelligence  as  the  seventh  point  of  the  Star  and  head  of  the 
law  is  fully  represented  by  this  chapter  on  temptation,  because 
the  temptations  of  mortals  are  their  imaginations  that  there  is 
something  besides  God,  or  the  spiritual  power  in  presence.  We 
are  to  discover  the  difference  between  right  ideas  as  states  of 
spiritual  being  which  are  understood,  and  mortal  sense  imagina- 
tions of  wrong  ideas  which  are  not  understood. 

How  TO  Know  Intelligence. 

How  can  I  gain  an  understanding  of  true  intelligence  and 
learn  its  correct  expression  in  mind-action.^ 

First  a  clear  concept  of  the  Christ  meaning  of  intelligence 
is  necessary.  Understanding  is  the  love-substance  of  intelli- 
gence; consciousness  is  the  truth-perfection;  while  creation  is 
the  life-action  of  intelligence. 

True  intelligence  is  the  souFs  understanding  as  the  recep- 
tive, intuitive  experience  of  the  heart;  that  knowing  of  the  soul's 
consciousness  which  seems  to  have  always  been  as  a  living 
expression  of  immortality. 

Herein  do  we  come  in  contact  with  our  own  selfhood  as  an 
active  spiritual  conscience.  It  expresses  an  understanding  con- 
sciousness as  a  realization  of  spiritual  truth,  and  separates  sense 
testimony  from  soul  testimony,  because  of  a  power  of  spiritual 
perception  in  interpretation  as  an  ability  to  know  the  law  of 
love,  truth,  life. 


220  The  Christ-Law 

Herein  is  our  consciousness  of  God  constantly  revealed^  for 
when  we  begin  to  sense  spiritual  truths  then  are  we  shown  the 
innermost  workings  of  harmony  as  the  kingdom  of  heaven  within. 

Intelligence  as  the  seventh  point  of  the  Star  and  head  of  the 
law  includes  and  expresses  the  infinite  ideas  of  Mind.  This  is 
the  perfected  state  of  all  creation  of  spiritual  being,  and  has 
nothing  to  do  with  the  sense  concepts  of  material  imperfection, 
which  is  suggested  by  objects  of  matter  around  and  about  us. 

An  understanding  of  the  law  of  truth,  life,  love,  as  true  intel- 
ligence will  give  the  possessor  power  over  the  temptations  of  sense 
suggestions  in  mortal  imaginations.  It  will  reduce  this  sense 
testimony  to  unthinkable  nothingness,  whereby  it  will  lose  its 
power  to  make  us  afraid. 

Intelligence  is  perfect  Mind-action,  and  when  we  reflect  its 
ideas  as  every  right  state  of  consciousness  then  these  come  within 
the  scope  of  this  head  of  the  law.  Therefore  infinite  creation  as 
spiritual  being  is  included  within  the  interpretation  of  Intelli- 
gence. 

A  soul  experience  of  peace,  love  and  joy  expresses  true  intel- 
ligence. That  love  which  is  made  active  through  the  power  of 
life  in  Mind,  and  perfected  in  truth  as  harmony  is  Intelligence. 

The  worldly  knowledge  of  conditions  of  matter,  gleaned  from 
false  mortal  concepts  of  law,  and  based  upon  sense  appearances, 
as  in  the  seeming  principle  of  botany,  mineralogy,  medicine,  etc., 
is  not  true  intelligence  founded  upon  spiritual  law,  but  temporal, 
material  and  unenduring.  These  belong  to  this  world  only,  and 
not  to  the  world  of  perfection,  neither  can  they  be  understood 
by  the  spiritual  conscience. 

True  intelligence  is  based  upon  an  understanding  consciousness 
of  spiritual  creation.  It  is  intuitively  known  within  conscience 
only,  and  testifies  of  infallible  law  as  that  which  is  in  perfect 
harmony  with  the  supreme  being.  Every  object  of  matter  has 
its  spiritual  interpretation  through  its  life-action,  love-substance, 
truth-perfection  meaning. 

The  material  interpretation  given  to  us  through  the  five  mortal 
sense  organs  of  judgiflent  cannot  be  trusted  because  they  present 


Intelligence  221 

a  deceptive  appearance  of  things  which  Jesus  said  we  were  not 
to  accept^  for  they  teach  us  of  fury^  falsity  and  death  only. 

The  brain  as  the  seat  of  all  mortal  sensation  cannot  sense  spir- 
itually the  law  of  life-love-truth^  but  senses  instead  heat,  cold, 
weight,  density,  etc.,  also  its  own  seeming  good  or  evil  in  the 
conditions  of  transitory  matter,  all  of  which  has  the  substance 
of  appearance  only.  Imperfect  interpretation  which  follows 
its  own  intent,  for  it  knows  none  other.  Its  constant  effort  is 
self-preservation,  and  in  consequence  of  this  fact  it  has  made  a 
law  for  itself  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest. 

The  whole  intent  and  nature  of  mortality  is  to  kill  something 
and  then  eat  it,  in  order  to  perpetuate  itself. 

This  false  sense  or  carnal-mind  interpreation  as  one  of  ap- 
pearance of  material  conditions  is  impotent,  fallible  and  imper- 
fect. It  is  based  wholly  upon  sense  appearance,  and  forms  the 
foundation  of  all  material  science,  so-called,  as  that  of  botany, 
mineralogy  and  medicine. 

It  can  be  easily  seen  that  this  knowledge,  so-called,  which  is 
no  more  than  false  sense  interpretation  suggested  to  us  by  mate- 
rial appearance  is  not  true  intelligence  as  an  infallible  law  of 
spiritual  perfection. 

Jesus  said  in  positive  command,  "Judge  not  according  to 
appearances.''  Then  why  should  we  abide  by  these  false  inter- 
pretations of  sense  suggestion.^  Jesus  also  said,  **The  flesh  prof- 
iteth  nothing,"  then  why  should  we  abide  by  its  appearance 
apart  from  and  in  opposition  to  spiritual  law.^ 

Therefore  to  gain  true  Intelligence  is  to  learn  to  see  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  of  all  things,  that  testimony  within  the  soul 
of  spiritual  law  which  is  not  contaminated  with  material  appear- 
ance to  lead  us  astray. 


222 


The  Christ-Law 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Point  of  Intelligence. 


Intelligence 
Ignorance 


r 


Understanding 
Stupidity 


(  Intuition 
•j  Receptivity 
(  Experience 


Obtuseness 

Apathy 

Latency 


J  Consciousness      \  Recognition         Indecision 
i  MQ+f^r  1  Interpretation     Inaction 

iviaiier  (Realization  Perplexity 


Creation 
Destruction 


Revelation  Concielment 

Construction        Separation 
Goodness  Carnality 


INTELLIGENCE,  the  Truth  of  Life,  Versus  IGNORANCE, 
AS  A  False  Concept. 

Ignorance  is  a  mortal  belief  which  is  not  of  the  law,  for  it  is 
an  imagination  opposing  intelligence.  We  have  been  taught  that 
all  unlawful  mortal  concepts  had  a  right  place  in  our  lives'  expe- 
rience, and  that  it  was  proper  to  think  these  unlawful  thoughts, 
but  these  same  thoughts  are  the  cause  of  our  many  sad  experi- 
ences and  mistakes.  Ignorance  is  nothingness,  means  nothing 
and  expresses  the  absence  of  the  real  which  has  meaning.  Ignor- 
ance has  no  being,  that  is  it  has  no  right  entity.  It  is  a  mere 
suggestion  which  would  have  us  think  that  something  opposed  to 
intelligence  is  worthy  of  our  thought,  this  suggestion  is,  that 
ever-present  intelligence  is  absent.  Ignorance  as  a  reference 
to  mortality  condemns  it  as  nothing,  for  mortals  in  the  concept 
of  mortality  are  impotent  in  their  own  sensations,  and  cannot 
express  intelligence  as  having  reality. 

We  say  ignorance  is  a  real  state  of  being,  for  I  am  ignorant. 
But  when  we  stop  to  consider  we  perceive  that  that  which  we 
have  not  is  no  part  of  us,  and  all  that  there  is  to  us  is  the  intel- 
ligence which  we  express.  This  expressed  intelligence  is  our 
real  selfhood  in  action  and  constitutes  the  true  individuality. 
Each  one  of  us  is  a  true  state  of  conscious  being  in  goodness, 
but  the  bad  has  no  being  and  cannot  be  understood,  therefore  is 
no  part  of  intelligence. 


Intelligence  223 

UNDERSTANDING^    the    Love    of    Intelligence,    Versus 
STUPIDITY,  AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Stupidity  is  a  mortal  dream  of  inaction,  as  if  anything  having 
presence  and  reality  cojuld  be  inactive.  Such  a  thought  is  un- 
thinkable, and  so  must  be  an  imagination,  because  presence  must 
be  eternally  active  in  order  to  be  or  have  being.  Stupidity  is 
the  testimony  of  the  mortal  self  about  itself,  hence  we  must  not 
listen  to  this  suggestion  and  believe  in  it.  We  hear  a  great 
deal  about  stupidity  and  believe  in  its  reality  and  truth  in  con- 
sequence, but  if  we  did  not  hear  this  suggestion  then  there 
would  be  none,  for  stupidity  is  the  lack  of  something.  We  must 
awake  to  the  fact  that  we  are  not  mortals  in  reality,  but  spiritual 
children  of  intelligence  expressing  truth  and  reality  only. 

CONSCIOUSNESS,    the    Truth    of    Intelligence,    Versus 
MATTER,  AS  A  False  Concept. 

Matter  in  every  appearance  is  subject  to  Mind's  revelation  of 
good;  it  is  also  subject  to  the  carnal-mind's  defilement,  the 
animal  or  mortal-sense-mind  is  not  mind,  properly  speaking,  as 
a  reflection  of  the  divine  Mind,  but  is  a  sense  imagination  of 
material  conditions.  It  is  that  which  has  departed  from  the  law 
of  the  righteous  Christ  because  it  cannot  know  him.  That  which 
appears  as  matter  is  real  and  true,  when  taken  and  considered 
from  the  spiritual  standpoint,  but  then  it  ceases  to  be  material 
and  becomes  the  result  of  spiritual  law.  Matter  as  matter  has 
the  substance  of  sense  imagination  only,  when  it  appears  as  an 
interpretation  of  destruction,  but  according  to  spiritual  law  as  of 
life,  love,  truth,  it  is  real  and  true  in  its  being. 

CREATION,  THE  Life  of  Intelligence,  Versus  DESTRUC- 
TION, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Destruction  taken  from  the  standpoint  of  the  mortal  concept 
is  one  of  fear  because  not  understood.  But  when  viewed  from  the 
spiritual  standpoint  we  perceive  that  there  is  nothing  destroyed, 
for  it  is  a  progression  of  life-action  which  is  always  present. 
When  we  descend  into  the  mortal  consciousness  of  things,  then 


224  The  Christ-Law 

we  imagine  mystery^  confusion^  fear,  destruction,  and  lose  sight 
of  good  as  eternal  reality. 

That  which  God  created  is  in  constant  revelation  as  life's  pro- 
gression.    That  which  He  did  not  create  we  sense  as  destruction. 

INTUITION,  THE  Life  of  Understanding,  Versus  OBTUSE- 
NESS,  AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Obtuseness  is  a  mortal  imagination  that  Mind  is  impotent,  for 
mortals  believe  that  they  are  a  perfect  image  and  likeness  of  a 
perfect  God  or  Mind.  But  they  express  only  mortal  imperfec- 
tion. Nothing  which  is  real  and  true  is  ever  untrue,  neither  is 
action  ever  inaction,  but  dead  mortals  alone  believe  in  inaction. 
Obtuseness  coming  through  a  suggestion  of  death  appearance  is  a 
mortal  interpretation  of  evil  and  is  without  foundation  of  fact. 
When  we  are  born  into  an  ability  to  understand  the  higher  spir- 
itual interpretation  of  absolute  law  in  the  life-love-truth-meaning 
of  things,  then  will  the  mortal  concept  of  obtuseness  vanish  away, 
for  it  cannot  be  found  within  the  absolute  law  of  the  Christ. 

RECEPTIVITY,     the     Love     of     Understanding,     Versus 
APATHY,  AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Apathy  is  another  false  concept  of  the  life  which  we  think 
we  are  living  in  mortality,  but  which  is  death  and  not  life  at  all. 
Apathy  is  an  effort  to  blind  us  to  the  perception  of  real  life- 
action  in  the  spirit  of  things.  Apathy  never  did  manifest  any 
life-action  and  never  will,  nor  does  it  give  forth  any  good  from 
the  law,  because  it  is  not  found  within  the  law.  When  our  recep- 
tive faculties  become  active  to  spiritual  things,  then  we  per- 
ceive the  good  which  it  was  intended  for  us  to  understand,  and 
apathy  becomes  nothingness  and  unworthy  of  our  mind-action, 
hence  we  will  not  exercise  our  thoughts  upon  it  as  a  state  of 
consciousness. 

EXPERIENCE,     the     Truth     of     Understanding,     Versus 
LATENCY,  AS  a  False  Concept. 

Latency  as  a  false  concept  of  inaction  is  intended  to  lead  us 
astray,  for  we  are  never  free  from  experiences,  either  good  or 


Intelligence  225 

evil,  according  to  our  attention  to  spiritual  law  or  to  suggestion. 
Not  until  we  analyze  these  experiences  and  become  familiar  with 
the  mark  of  good  and  that  of  evil  can  we  live  correctly.  We 
must  come  out  from  under  the  bondage  of  latent  inaction  and 
learn  the  difference  between  experience  and  no  experience. 

When  we  abide  imder  the  standard  of  one  good  as  all,  we  will 
receive  the  experience  of  spiritual  being  and  find  ourselves  sat- 
isfied. Mortality  will  have  been  eliminated  as  a  factor  in  life- 
action. 

RECOGNITION,  the  Love  of  Consciousness,  versus  INDE- 
CISION, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Indecision  is  mortal  impotence  from  not  knowing;  for  it  is 
between  two  standards  of  good  and  evil,  and  while  in  this  state 
of  belief  cannot  possibly  reach  a  decision.  When  we  recognize 
truth  and  error  as  both  of  them  having  entity,  real  being,  then 
we  cannot  know  either  one  as  real  and  true,  for  the  opposing 
one  comes  in  to  interfere,  causing  indecision. 

Indecision  keeps  us  from  going  ahead  in  our  life-action;  it  is 
a  hateful  concept  of  mortal  death  and  one  to  be  avoided.  Recog- 
nition is  the  means  of  our  active  intelligence  and  reveals  the 
law  of  life,  love,  truth.  It  alone  affords  a  means  of  going 
ahead  with  our  living,  and  makes  the  fact  of  life-action  very 
plain  to  us.  Therefore  we  must  awake  and  recognize  the  things 
of  the  law  which  can  be  known  and  understood,  eschewing  all 
indecision  because  of  not  knowing. 

INTERPRETATION,  the  Truth  of  Consciousness,  Versus 
INACTION,  AS  A  False  Concept. 

Inaction  is  certainly  a  state  of  mind  which  does  not  need  much 
comment;  for  it  does  not  manifest  anything  at  all.  Its  meaning 
is  utter  nothingness,  which  is  no  meaning.  To  have  an  interpre- 
tation of  something  as  life-action  creates  a  fact  of  knowing,  for 
our  ability  to  think  right  thoughts,  makes  them  real  and  true 
states  of  dominion  within  mind. 

We  cannot  think  nothingness,  no  matter  how  hard  we  try,  for 
to  think  at  all  we  must  think  something,  and  every  bit  of  the 


226  The  Christ-Law 

somethingness  of  being  is  included  within  the  law  of  the  abso- 
lute Christ. 

REALIZATION,  the   Life   of   Consciousness,   Versus   PER- 
PLEXITY, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Perplexity  is  mortal  indecision  because  of  not  knowing  the 
Christ-law  of  right  ideas  as  states  of  spiritual  consciousness.  To 
acknowledge  the  presence  of  two  standards  is  perplexity  itself 
and  surely  will  hold  us  in  confusion.  There  is  no  help  for  us 
as  long  as  we  cling  to  both  standards  of  good  and  evil,  for  they 
oppose  each  other  and  there  is  no  health  in  them.  The  confusion 
of  mortality's  two  concepts  is  death,  because  there  is  no  right  in 
them.  There  is  no  perplexity  in  the  presence  of  intelligence, 
for  the  realization  of  right  always  satisfies. 

REVELATION,  the  Truth  of  Creation,  Versus  CONCEAL- 
MENT, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Concealment  is  that  realization  of  truth  which  is  hidden  by 
the  false  sensations  of  the  mortal  mind.  If  it  was  not  for  this 
false  mortal  consciousness  we  would  perceive  truth  without  ob- 
struction and  know  that  truth  was  all  that  could  be  perceived. 
We  mortals  are  our  own  blindness,  but  there  is  nothing  hidden 
which  shall  not^  be  made  plain,  neither  concealed,  which  shall 
not  be  known,  according  to  our  Saviour's  word. 

Everything  perfect  is  revealed  within  the  spiritual  conscious- 
ness, but  nothing  perfect  is  given  to  the  mortal  consciousness, 
because  it  would  defile  it,  for  it  is  the  mortal  will  which  blas- 
phemes against  the  Christ-law. 

CONSTRUCTION,  the  Life  of  Creation,  Versus  SEPAR- 
ATION, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Separation  is  the  mortal  belief  that  we  are  separated  from  the 
law  of  the  Christ  and  cannot  understand  it,  also  that  we  are 
impotent  mortals  and  bound  by  an  evil  law  to  abide  in  bondage 
to  evil.  If  there  is  any  separation  then  we  do  the  act  for  our- 
selves by  abiding  within  mortal  concepts.     To   get  away   from 


Intelligence  227 

these  beliefs  we  must  arise  and  know  Christ's  law  of  good  and 
realize  that  we  are  spiritual  or  mental  beings  not  bound  to  serve 
imaginations  of  mortality.  Constructive  life-action  is  our  proper 
sphere  and  it  is  to  know  the  absolute  law  of  the  Christ  and  abide 
therein. 

GOODNESS,  THE  Love  of  Creation,  Versus  CARNALITY, 
AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Carnal  consciousness  is  within  the  mortal  mind,  and  is  the 
mortal  mind.  It  is  the  dead  sense  of  mortal  imaginations  apart 
from  the  Christ  law  of  everliving  loveliness.  Our  Master  said 
that  we  had  to  be  born  again  out  of  this  state  of  belief  as  a  state 
of  mortal  consciousness,  into  concepts  of  the  law  of  love  wherein 
we  find  life  and  truth  perfected. 

Not  until  we  have  attained  this  law  of  love  in  the  soul  ex- 
pression of  its  infinite  ideas  can  we  be  said  to  be  alive,  for 
otherwise  we  abide  in  the  dead  mortal  consciousness  of  sense 
imaginations.  Goodness  is  the  standard  of  the  law  of  love  and 
the  base  of  all  right  living. 

How  TO  Know  Intelligence. 

Having  satisfied  ourselves  that  we  have  ceased  to  give  any 
allegiance  to  the  false  concepts  which  have  been  reviewed  in 
the  preceding  pages,  we  are  then  ready  to  take  up  the  perfect 
and  right  ideas  of  the  spiritual  consciousness.  From  these  we 
are  to  learn  of  the  Christ-law  and  therein  gain  our  immortal 
existence  with  him. 

The  following  part  of  this  chapter  is  very  important  and  the 
affirmation  of  the  truth  as  states  of  spiritual  being  realized, 
should  not  be  passed  over  any  faster  than  one  can  get  an 
understanding  of  what  is  meant  by  the  life-love-truth-meaning 
of  the  law.  Every  spiritual  state  of  conscience  must  express  a 
life-love-truth-meaning  only  and  must  be  complete  and  perfect. 

These  tables  give  this  law  of  the  one  Christ  meaning  to  all 
things  which  are  created.  No  mortal  imaginations  as  the  things 
which  were  not  made  are  found  therein,  neither  can  they  be  asso- 
ciated with  the  Christ. 


228  The  Christ-Law 

It  must  be  plain  by  this  time  that  when  we  have  two  standards, 
one  of  good  and  one  of  evil^  and  seemingly  each  has  a  state  of 
consciousness,  each  in  opposition  to  the  other,  that  we  must  abide 
in  confusion.  Not  until  we  deny  the  evdl  as  having  any  life-action, 
power,  being  or  right,  will  we  be  free  and  ready  to  take  up  the 
understanding  of  the  allness  of  good  and  make  progress  in 
healing  as  thought  reformation,  with  its  beneficial  results 
physically. 

This  healing  result  is  not  accomplished  through  the  mortal 
consciousness  of  self  will,  but  through  the  ever  present  law  of 
righteousness  in  perfect  action.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  mortal 
supremacy^  for  God  is  the  one  supreme  law  of  good  and  this 
alone  must  we  know  and  acknowledge,  and  see  every  child  of 
God  as  his  perfect  image. 

Mortals  treat  each  other  with  the  force  of  the  evil  mortal  will. 
Hypnotization  follows  this  kind  of  treatment  with  actual  harm, 
for  it  is  not  good  to  dominate  one  mortal  will  with  another 
stronger  one.  Now  let  us  pass  from  this  state  into  a  con- 
sciousness of  the  presence  of  the  Christ-law,  and  abide  therein, 
realizing  that  it  alone  is  good  and  all  power. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
Star. 

The  Tables  in  the  Seventh  Point  of  the  Star  of  Intelli- 
gence. 

Table    One. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Life  equals  love's  substantial 
Intelligence. 

Table    Two. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Intelligence  equals  life's  active 
Understanding. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Intelligence  equals  truth's 
perfect  Consciousness. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Intelligence  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Creation. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Intelligence  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind  are 


Intelligence  229 

Understanding,  Consciousness,  Creation.     These  ideas  represent 
Intelligence. 

Table  Three. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Understanding  equals  truth's 
perfect   Intuition. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Understanding  equals  love's 
substantial  Receptivity. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Understanding  equals 
life's  active  Experience. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Understanding,  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind 
are  Intuition,  Receptivity,  Experience.  These  ideas  represent 
Understanding. 

Table    Four. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Consciousness  equals  Life's 
active  Recognition. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Consciousness  equals  truth's 
perfect  Interpretation. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Consciousness  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Realization. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Consciousness  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind 
are  Recognition,  Interpretation,  Realization.  These  ideas  rep- 
resent Consciousness. 

Table    Five. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Creation  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Revelation. 

The  life-action  of  active  Creation  equals  life's  active  Con- 
struction. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Creation  equals  truth's  perfect 
Goodness. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Creation  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind,  are 
Revelation,  Construction,  Goodness.  These  ideas  represent  Crea- 
tion. 


230  The  Christ-Law 

This  point  of  the  Star  of  Intelligence  can  be  studied  well  with 
good  profit^  for  it  is  the  very  essence  of  that  perfect  action  with 
which  we  are  to  work.  Its  object  is  to  give  us  true  understanding 
of  spiritual  life. 

For  the  benefit  of  the  reader  the  law  in  the  first  table  is 
herein  given  in  a  simple  form  to  enable  one  to  perceive  the 
complete  meaning  of  life^  love^  truth  in  one  state  of  conscious- 
ness. 

The  love  of  true  Intelligence  equals  life's  Understanding. 
The  life  of  good  Understood  equals  true  Intuition. 
The  love  of  true  Consciousness  equals  life's  Recognition. 
The  truth  of  livir  ^  Creation  equals  love's  Revelation. 

The  Relation  of  the  Ideas  of  the  Point  of  Intelligence. 

The  relation  of  the  ideas  of  the  point  of  the  Star  of  Intelli- 
gence with  those  of  the  other  realms,  giving  a  method  of  study- 
ing them  in  order  to  get  them  fixed  in  consciousness.  We  have 
need  of  their  protecting  power  to  keep  us  from  listening  to  the 
aggressive  suggestions  of  the  animal-sense-mind  in  its  impo- 
tence^ confusion  and  fury. 

Beginning  with  understanding  as  the  love  of  intelligence 
we  find  that  the  next  association  is  with  loyalty  in  the  realm 
of  obedience.  Not  until  we  understand  are  we  able  to  be  loyal 
in  truth;  then  we  find  that  we  have  the  prevailing  power  of 
judgment  as  the  life-action  of  right. 

Taking  next  the  idea  of  consciousness  we  find  that  the  first 
association  is  with  service.  It  is  not  possible  to  have  and  hold  a 
true  consciousness  as  of  intelligence  without  serving  God  in 
a  true  state  of  spiritual  being.  Next  follows  the  association  with 
honesty^  for  a  conscious  service  of  the  law  is  honesty. 

Next  comes  creation  as  the  last  idea  in  this  point  of  the  Star. 
We  find  that  it  is  in  association  with  purity^  for  purity  is  that 
which  God  created  and  gave  to  his  children  to  express.  Then 
comes  an  association  with  justice  as  a  finishing  touch  to  our 
concept  of  that  which  was  created.  The  law  of  right  or  good 
as  love  is  all  that  ever  was  created,  and  its  infinite  manifestations 
are  constantly  being  revealed. 


Intelligence  231 

Now  out  of  the  consciousness  of  control  and  power  is  under- 
standing revealed^  understanding  as  the  substance  of  intelli- 
gence. Out  of  the  consciousness  of  power  and  understanding 
is  consciousness  within  conscience  revealed  as  true  spiritual 
being.  Out  of  understanding  and  consciousness  is  creation  made 
evident  as  the  presence  of  life^  love^  truth. 

An  understanding  consciousness  reveals  or  creates  Intelligence 
and  also  a  creation  of  an  understanding  consciousness  reveals 
Intelligence. 

Next  come  the  relation  of  the  ideas  in  the  fourth  revelation 
of  Mind's  meaning. 

Out  of  ability  and  finality  comes  the  concept  of  intuition^  as 
a  spiritual  understanding  of  the  things  of  truth.  Out  of  finality 
and  intuition  comes  a  concept  of  receptivity,  as  an  ability  to  com- 
mune with  our  maker  and  to  learn  of  his  law  and  live.  Out  of 
intuition  and  receptivity  we  gain  experience  with  the  things  of 
Spirit  as  understanding. 

Out  of  receptivity  and  experience  we  come  into  a  recognition 
of  life  as  active  mind  and  begin  to  live.  Out  of  experience  and 
recognition  we  gain  an  ability  to  interpret  all  things  of  the  law. 
Out  of  recognition  and  interpretation  we  are  given  a  realization 
of  Christ's  presence  which  satisfies  us  with  a  final  testimony. 

Out  of  interpretation  and  realization  we  are  given  a  revelation 
of  God's  creation.  Out  of  realization  and  revelation  comes  the 
concept  of  construction.  Out  of  revelation  and  construction  comes 
the  understanding  of  goodness.  These  are  the  relations  of  the 
ideas  of  the  law  of  intelligence,  but  not  all  of  them,  for  it  is 
left  for  the  reader  to  complete  them  in  other  circles. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  the  Law  of  Intelligence. 

Seventh  Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20,  2  and  14  is  given  the  seventh  commandment, 
which  corresponds  to  the  seventh  point  of  the  Star  as  a  head 
of  the  law  of  Intelligence,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  following  ex- 
planation : 

(Because)  I  am  the  Lord  thy  God  which  have  brought  thee 
out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the  house  of  bondage,  out  of 


232  The  Christ-Law 

sense  allegiance  to  good  and  evil_,  and  into  a  soul  experience  of 
spiritual  demands^  then: — 

"Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery/* 

Because  I  have  given  you  dominion  in  my  likeness  that  is  in 
the  image  of  perfection^  thou  shalt  not  know  or  be  tempted  to 
adulterate  anything  of  perfection  with  imperfection.  Neither 
shall  you  defile  that  which  is  pure  and  perfect.  Thou  shalt  not 
soil  thy  God-given  dominion  of  true  spiritual  intelligence  with 
the  ignorance  of  false  mortal  imaginations. 

Once  knowing  the  dominion  of  truth's  presence  within  con- 
science we  discover  that  we  cannot  add  anything  to  it  neither 
take  anything  from  it. 

As  this  law  is  a  perfect  state  of  spiritual  being  given  to  us  to 
live,  we  must  abide  within  it,  for  it  carries  its  own  authority 
against  which  we  cannot  prevail.  Therefore  we  shall  lose  our 
counterfeit  concepts  of  deceit  and  duplicity  as  the  unlawful 
thoughts,  in  the  consciousness  of  the  presence  of  the  law  of  intelli- 
gence, and  therein  keep  this  commandment. 

The  Seventh  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5,  9,  we  read  the  seventh  beatitude,  which  is  the  one 
which  corresponds  to  this  head  of  the  law  and  gives  its  intent  of 
blessing. 

"Blessed  are  the  peace  makers:  for  they  shall  be  called  the 
children  of  God.'* 

A  peace  maker  is  a  doer  of  loveliness,  a  liver  of  real  harmony 
which  is  intelligence.  Understanding  and  intelligence  is  final  in 
its  testimony  and  saves  from  strife. 

Lovable  people  who  understand  are  children  of  love  and  intelli- 
gence. Intelligence  as  the  result  of  principle  in  action  througli 
dominion  will  prevail  against  everything  unlike  itself  and  make 
peace  and  harmony.  Blessed  are  those  who  exercise  their  God 
given  gift  of  intelligence  and  express  peace  and  harmony,  for 
they  shall  be  known  as  the  children  of  the  Law  of  good  or  God. 


Intelligence  233 

The  Lord's  Prayer. 

In  Matt.  6,  13,  in  the  seventh  section  of  the  Lord's  prayer  we 
read, 

^*And  lead  us  not  into  temptation.** 

Surely  the  one  supreme  law  of  perfection  ^vill  not  lead  anyone 
into  the  temptation  of  sense  imaginations  as  an  unlawful  mind 
expression,  for  Intelligence  could  not  possibly  testify  of  ignor- 
ance and  tempt  anyone. 

To  realize  intelligence  is  to  be  led  away  from  sense  suggestions 
and  therein  be  kept  free  from  temptation. 

Jesus  expressed  himself  in  regard  to  this  head  of  the  law  of 
intelligence  when  he  said,  ** Judge  not  that  ye  be  not  judged/'  for 
the  law  is  judge  over  all  and  we  cannot  substitute  sense  imagina- 
tions in  place  of  the  law.  The  law  of  Intelligence  will  overturn 
and  reverse  our  mortal  opinions  in  just  judgment  as  the  pre- 
vailing of  righteousness. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  7,  Ij,  we  read  where  Jesus  begins  to  explain  intelli- 
gence and  to  warn  his  hearers  against  unlawful  thought.  He 
says  that  with  what  judgment  you  judge  with  that  same  judg- 
ment as  an  unlawful  opinion  are  you  in  error,  and  that  you 
should  abide  within  the  law's  expression  of  all  intelligent  ideas. 
In  this  way  will  we  escape  our  own  ignorance. 

In  verse  3  he  asks  why  do  we  behold  the  mote  in  another's 
eye — that  is,  why  do  we  criticise  his  interpretation  and  judge 
it  because  it  differs  from  ours.  We  are  not  a  standard  of  measure 
and  should  be  careful  not  to  expose  ourselves  as  such,  for  we 
surely  will  be  called  to  account  by  the  law  of  love,  which  is  the 
one  and  only  measure. 

Jesus  then  says  for  us  to  put  aside  our  own  self  opinions,  the 
mote  within  our  eye  or  the  beam  within  our  understanding,  and 
to  abide  by  the  one  absolute  and  perfect  law  of  the  Christ, 
then  shall  we  experience  its  final  testimony  and  knowing  be  able 
to  help  our  brother. 


234  The  Christ-Law 

In  verse  5  Jesus  defines  hypocrisy  as  an  allegiance  to  one's 
self  opinions  which  are  opposed  to  the  law  of  right  or  intelli- 
gence. Therefore  we  must  perfect  ourselves  in  the  law  first  thajt 
we  may  see  clearly  just  how  to  help  others. 

In  verse  6  he  commands  us  not  to  give  those  thing  of  spiritual 
being  which  are  holy  unto  those  who  will  defile  them,  for  therein 
we  would  be  at  fault  and  apt  to  suffer.  Neither  are  we  to  cast 
our  pearls  of  right  understanding  before  human  swine,  because 
they  will  turn  upon  us  with  hate  and  fury,  and  we  may  be 
offended,  thereby  receiving  harm  from  this  offense. 

We  are  cautioned  not  to  cast  ourselves  down  from  the  pinnacle 
of  the  temple  of  intelligence  as  good  realized  within  conscience, 
that  we  may  be  defiled  in  the  pit  of  offense,  confusion  and  fury. 

In  verse  9  Jesus  compares  our  concept  of  good  or  love  with 
that  of  the  Father,  and  teaches  us  that  the  love  of  the  Father 
is  greater  than  our  mortal  sense  of  love  and  that  we  should  trust 
him. 

Then  Jesus  sums  up  the  whole  law  of  intelligence  by  showing 
us  that  we  receive  back  just  exactly  that  same  thought  expression 
as  a  state  of  being  which  we  express  and  send  out. 

If  we  would  receive  good  then  we  must  persistently  give  forth 
good.  He  commands  us  to  do  unto  others  just  as  we  would  have 
them  do  to  us.  That  is  for  us  to  follow  the  ruling  of  one  law  that 
it  may  be  made  manifest. 

This  is  the  law  of  mind-action  in  Intelligence,  that  as  we  think 
or  act,  that  same  state  of  thought  constitutes  our  being,  for  we 
cannot  be  any  different  from  our  actual  intent  of  heart.  This  is 
the  law  of  Mind  and  is  the  teaching  of  all  of  the  Prophets. 


CHAPTER    XII. 

BEING 

THE  Life  of  Life. 

A    Law    of    Constructive    Action    Which    Delivers    From 

Death. 

Psalms  65y  4,  "Blessed  is  the  man  whom  thou  ehoosest  and 
eausest  to  approach  unto  thee^  that  he  may  dwell  in  thy  courts; 
we  shall  be  satisfied  with  the  goodness  of  thy  house^  even  of  thy 
holy  temple." 

The  action  of  Mind  as  a  living  state  of  consciousness  is  ex- 
pressed by  its  offspring  in  a  soul  experience  of  constructive  good ; 
and  gives  forth  life  as  all  action;  love  as  all  substance;  truth  as 
all  perfection. 

John  4<y  23  and  24^  "But  the  hour  cometh  and  now  is  when  the 
true  worshippers  shall  worship  the  Father  in  spirit  and  in  truth^ 
for  the  Father  seeketh  such  to  worship  him.'* 

"God  is  a  Spirit:  and  they  that  worship  him  must  worship  him 
in  spirit  and  in  truth.'* 

Few  of  us  realize  that  our  real  selfhood  is  a  thinking  con- 
science or  soul  entity  of  spirit  in  close  and  constant  unity  with 
the  one  ruling  Spirit  of  the  Father.  We  are  beautifully  attuned 
through  spiritual  sensibility  to  perfect  harmony  with  God^  and  it 
is  because  of  the  attraction  of  love  or  good  as  a  power  of  Mind. 

Few  of  us  realize  that  a  soul  experience  of  good  is  a  perfect 
reflection  of  God.  The  resplendant  action  of  the  light  of  the 
Father-Mind  or  Spirit  shining  upon  us  and  producing  an  under- 
standing conscience,  because  of  life  in  action  as  a  power  of  Mind. 

Few  of  us  realize  and  note  the  presence  of  truth  within  our 
own  conscience  as  a  prevailing,  convincing  and  satisfying  power 
of  constructive  good,  quickening  us  into  an  healing  conscious- 
ness of  demonstrable  law,  thereby  making  us  to  know,  because 
of  the  coercion  of  truth  as  a  power  of  Mind. 


236  The  Christ-Law 

Consciousness  as  a  soul  experience  of  spiritual  perception  in 
which  is  substantial  discernment  or  discernment  of  substance 
within  the  realm  of  love^  is  Holiness ;  love's  substance  as  a  state 
of  constructive  good.  The  everpresent  presence  of  Being  as  the 
"I  Am"  of  Mind. 

Consciousness  as  a  soul  experience  of  spiritual  perception  in 
which  is  active  discernment  or  discernment  of  action  within 
the  realm  of  life_,  is  Being;  life's  action  as  a  state  of  constructive 
good.  The  energy  of  the  thinking  conscience  in  understanding- 
spiritual  being  as  the  "I  Will"  of  Mind. 

Consciousness  as  a  soul  experience  of  spiritual  perception  in 
which  is  perfect  discernment  or  discernment  of  the  perfect  within 
the  realm  of  truths  is  Principle;  truth's  perfection  as  a  state  of 
constructive  good.  The  coercive  power  of  the  supreme  law  of  per- 
fection as  the  "I  Have  and  Can"  of  Mind. 

Therefore  a  state  of  life-action^  love-substance^  truth-perfec- 
tion alone  can  be  expressed  by  a  living  conscience^  for  there  is 
nothing  known  or  knowable  apart  from  a  spiritual  consciousness. 
The  soul  expression  of  the  principle  of  right  or  perfect  idea 
entities  is  that  which  constitutes  our  spiritual  being  and  serves 
as  our  guide  into  eternal  life. 

It  is  essential  and  very  necessary  that  we  have  these  ideas 
established  within  conscience  as  active  living  states  of  being 
or  life.  Without  them  in  their  rightful  meaning  of  life-action^ 
love-substance^  truth-perfection  given  in  the  nine  heads  of  the 
law^  we  are  not  able  nor  capable  of  keeping  the  commandments. 
Because  of  the  false  mortal  concept  of  a  threat  of  evil^  which  has 
not  helped  us  to  keep  them  one  bit. 

Without  Christ's  law  of  life^  love^  truth^  we  cannot  express  a 
soul  experience  of  that  which  is  the  keeping  of  the  command- 
ments^ consequently  we  are  at  the  mercy  of  sense  suggestion 
which  at  once  substitutes  a  worthless  counterfeit  to  take  the 
place  of  the  lawful  spiritual  meaning. 

To  know  a  spiritual  truth  as  a  soul  experience  of  God^  or  the 
law  of  good_,  is  our  one  way  to  gain  deliverance  from  evil,  devil, 
which  comes  through  sense  suggestion  and  has  no  substance  or 
foundation  of  reality. 


Being  2S7 

This  battle  with  devil  is  fought  out  and  lost  or  won  within 
conscience  alone.  The  battle  is  for  our  attention  and  service 
to  a  law  of  perfection  in  the  expression  of  every  right  idea,  and, 
an  imperfect  chaotic  sense  suggestion  of  a  law,  seemingly  ex- 
pressed in  destructive  material  conditions.  When  we  realize  this 
fact  it  is  not  hard  to  choose. 

A  complete  thought  within  conscience  as  an  individuality  is 
given  one  meaning  by  an  indestructible  law,  which  requires  that 
we  realize  the  life-love-truth-meaning  alone  concerning  it.  This 
law  is  that  which  compels  us  to  be  perfect  in  our  expression  of 
life-action,  and  thereby  escape  the  coercive  laws  which  are  made 
by  mortals.  They  cannot  be  added  to  the  Christ-law,  neither 
considered  in  any  way,  for  the  one  law  of  righteousness  is  com- 
plete and  perfect  and  covers  all  rightful  consciousness  in  living. 

The  one  thing  which  we  must  do  is  to  know  this  law  of  the 
Christ-righteousness  and  abide  within  it  continually.  Its  be- 
ginning is  given  in  the  Star  of  Bethlehem  and  from  what  is 
there  given  the  reader  can  go  on  into  infinite  extension  of  Mind's 
revelation.  This  principle  of  perfect  thought  will  surely  give  to 
all  those  who  study  it  an  understanding  of  good  and  lead  them 
into  the  realization  of  the  Christ  consciousness  with  its  healing 
power  to  destroy  fear  and  disease. 

True  consciousness  of  being  demands  that  we  express  the  life- 
love-truth-meaning  only  in  every  interpretation  which  we  make, 
and  look  with  the  intent  of  heart  to  see  the  good  alone.  If  we  are 
strong  enough  in  our  intent  to  see  the  good  alone  we  shall  not 
sense  the  presence  of  evil,  for  its  suggestions  will  not  be  under- 
stood and  therefore  not  attract  us. 

When  we  make  up  our  mind's  action  among  the  right  ideas 
alone  then  there  will  be  no  appearance  of  evil,  and  soon  we 
shall  understand  the  three  powers  of  Mind  and  gain  an  ability  to 
use  them  rightfully. 

The  beginning  of  the  ninety-first  Psalm  expresses  this  abso- 
lute law  most  perfectly,  for  to  abide  in  conscience  with  the  law 
is  to  gain  the  protection  of  perfection. 

To  be,  is  to  be  present,  that  is  to  come  into  spiritual  under- 
standing and  be  of  the  one  Presence.  When  we  become  spirit- 
ualized enough  to  look  into  space  beyond  material  appearance. 


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and  there  behold  the  presence  of  the  supreme  law  of  perfection 
ruling  all  things  in  the  life-action  of  life,  then  we  come  very 
close  to  Mind  as  the  power  of  Spirit  within  this  law.  The  better 
realization  that  we  can  get  of  this  ruling  power's  presence  and 
absolute  ability  to  prevail^  the  further  we  get  away  from  material 
law,  as  a  law  with  power  to  rule  in  evil. 

As  life  is  expressed  by  the  living  soul  then  within  it  lives  all  of 
that  which  is  created  good,  all  things  of  action,  substance  and 
perfection.  The  outline  and  boundary  of  this  law  of  perfection  is 
absolutely  restricted  to  no  variation  at  all,  and  we  cannot  hope  to 
enter  into  life  except  through  perfect  understanding  of  the 
perfect  law  of  the  Christ. 

Our  life  and  its  manifest  living  must  become  absolutely  free 
from  allegiance  to  the  testimony  of  the  deceiving  sense  of  mortals, 
all  of  which  blind  and  darken  our  concepts  of  spiritual  being. 
The  knowledge  of  good  as  the  way  of  the  law  of  the  Christ, 
gradually  overcomes  our  allegiance  to  material  experiences  as  the 
reality  of  true  being;  because  a  mental  conception  through  law 
is  translated  from  material  belief  into  spiritual  certainty. 

Whenever  we  are  born  into  spiritual  understanding  and  thereby 
come  into  perfect  unity  with  the  Christ-Mind,  perceiving  a  clear 
realization  of  the  perfection  of  spiritual  law  as  the  unassailable 
way  of  life,  we  shall  discover  many  new  relations  with  our  Father. 
They  will  consist  of  revelations  for  which  we  have  no  symbols, 
experiences  which  we  have  not  been  over  before;  states  of  being 
which  are  purely  spiritual,  finer  grained,  more  exquisite  in  their 
expression  of  life,  higher  in  power  and  sacredness  which  will 
make  the  law  more  real.  They  will  strengthen  our  faith  into  an 
healing  consciousness  with  power  and  ability  far  above  every 
thing  mortal. 

Spiritualization  will  reveal  the  perfect  child  of  God,  and  surely 
it  shall  manifest  good  works  within  him,  because  it  is  a  law 
unassailable,  irrevocable,  indestructible,  supreme,  in  God. 

How  TO  Know  Being. 

Just  how  can  I  gain  a  realization  of  spiritual  being,  in  which 
I  am  to  find  my  own  selfhood  in  its  likeness  ?    That  I  may  reveal 


Being  239 

or  bring  to  light  my  reality  in  truth  and  right,  for  I  am  to  find 
myself  as  a  spiritual  entity  or  mental  being. 

First  we  must  know  the  Christ  meaning  of  the  being  which 
we  reflect,  and  it  is  as  follows:  The  truth-perfection  of  being  is 
reality.  The  life-action  of  being  is  infinity.  The  love-substance 
of  being  is  presence. 

Reality  is  expressed  by  all  things  which  continue  in  coiit 
structive  goodness  and  love,  and  is  found  only  within  the  realm 
of  Spirit.  We  know  intuitively  within  our  own  heart's  con- 
science that  its  everlasting  vitality  compels  presence  and  the  law 
of  right  or  truth,  and  that  this  constitutes  all  perfect  being, 
therefore  imperfection  has  no  being. 

Infinity  is  the  everlasting  life-action  of  perfect  being.  It  is 
universal  law  and  is  everywhere  present  in  every  conceivable 
way.  It  is  absolute  in  its  ruling  every  moment  of  time  which 
gives  us  the  concept  of  the  eternal  now,  the  everpresent  presence 
of  immortality  as  life-action. 

Presence  is  the  perfect  and  continued  manifestation  of  this  law 
of  infinite  right  in  action  as  immutable  and  unchangeable  being. 
Its  substantial  state  of  love  and  good  is  always  the  substance 
of  being,  which  is  our  existence  of  immortal  life-action  as  mental 
expression. 

We  have  but  to  look  within  our  own  hearts  to  find  a  living 
active  conscience  ever  ready  to  express  that  which  is  eternal 
and  good  and  thereby  blossom  out  into  radiant  loveliness.  This 
expresses  our  real  selfhood  as  the  perfect  child  of  God.  When 
an  evil  appearance  comes  up  before  us  to  darken  our  perception 
of  the  spiritual  we  should  turn  away  from  it  and  deny  its  power 
to  attract  or  distract  us  from  the  immortal  good. 

So  closely  are  we  attuned  to  our  heavenly  Father's  love  and 
law  of  good,  that  we  cannot  truthfully  express  anything  but  his 
perfect  being,  for  this  alone  can  be  lived,  loved,  and  known.  The 
unity  of  mind  with  Mind  is  the  office  of  this  head  of  the  law  to 
reveal  the  life  of  Life. 


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The  Christ-Law 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Point  of  Being. 


r 


Being  , 

Nothingness        ]  Finiteness 


Reality 
Falsity 


Infinity 


L 


Presence 
Absence 


i  Spirituality 
\  Actuality 
(  Vitality 

{Universality 
Absoluteness 
Eternity 

i  Perpetuity 
"j  Immutability 
f  Existence 


Mortality 

Fable 

Spiritless 

Limitation 
Restriction 
Momentariness 

Cessation 

Changeableness 

Expiration 


BEING,  THE   Life   of  Life,  Versus   NOTHINGNESS,   as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Nothingness  is  no  thought  at  all,  merely  a  symbol  to  repre- 
sent a  suggestion  as  absence,  for  nothingness  cannot  be  thought. 
It  has  no  meaning,  for  there  is  no  absence  anywhere  in  perfect 
presence.  Presence  occupies  all  space  for  all  of  the  where  that 
there  is,  is  full  of  presence. 

It  would  be  foolish  to  state  that  we  are  nothing,  for  it  would 
not  be  true.  We  are  something  as  active  spiritual  mentalities,  ex- 
pressing states  of  good  which  have  perfect  being.  Those  things 
which  seem  to  be — that  is,  have  being  or  presence  because  they 
are  sensed  by  mortals  with  their  sense  organs,  have  no  spiritual 
being  and  are  not  known  to  Spirit.  Their  falsity  is  in  the 
interpretation  through  mortal  sense,  consequently  they  have  no 
spiritual  or  true  meaning,  because  they  have  a  beginning  and  an 
end  in  mortality. 

Death  as  nothingness  is  that  which  cannot  be  expressed  through 
active  mind  and  is  made  up  of  every  mortal  or  death  experience. 

God's  universe  is  real,  good  and  right,  but  the  mortal  inter- 
pretation of  it  through  the  deceiving  and  imperfect  senses  is 
very  much  at  fault.  It  is  through  these  mortal  sense  organs  that 
we  learn  of  evil,  death,  nothingness,  and  it  is  this  testimony 
which  blinds  us  to  concepts  of  good.  Interpretation  made 
through  the  Christ  law  will  destroy  false  concepts  and  evil. 


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REALITY,  THE   Truth   of   Being,   Versus   FALSITY,   as   a 
False  Concept. 

Falsity  is  self  evident  in  its  intent  to  deceive,  and  we  must 
be  very  blind  and  heedless  to  be  deceived  by  this  open  and  daring 
error.  We  must  awaken  to  the  fact  that  there  is  no  falsity  any 
where  which  has  the  power  and  right  of  being,  and  which  is 
able  to  do  things  in  its  own  name.  The  law  of  right  has  the 
entire  right  of  way  so  there  is  no  place  for  falsity. 

Falsity  is  a  state  of  consciousness  of  our  own  making  from 
which  we  suffer  because  it  is  not  of  the  law  and  cannot  stand. 
It  is  a  mortal  imagination  without  being  or  substance. 

We  must  arise  and  know  that  God  made  all  things  perfect  and 
good  and  that  there  is  no  call  for  us  to  substitute  our  thoughts 
for  his. 

INFINITY,  the  Life  of  Being,  Versus  FINITENESS,  as  a 
Death  Concept. 

Finiteness  is  mortal  thoughtlessness  as  the  things  men  make; 
infinite  being  is  the  active  law  of  God,  that  which  has  ability 
to  finish  and  make  perfect.  The  worthless  imaginations  of  men 
are  superfluous  and  sure  to  get  those  people  into  trouble  who 
follow  them.  Finite  things  seem  good  to  foolish  mortals  who 
cannot  know  anything  but  materiality,  the  finite  child  is  their 
child,  and  they  feel  responsible  for  its  being.  We  cannot  put 
this  finite  child  within  the  infinite  law,  for  they  cannot  both 
equal  the  one  perfect  presence. 

PRESENCE,  the  Love   of  Being,  Versus  ABSENCE,  as  a 
Hate  Concept. 

Absence  is  an  unthinkable  state  of  being  to  be  in.  To  be  at 
all  is  to  be  present,  and  absence  is  a  mortal  symbol  to  indicate  a 
momentary  change   from  place  to  place  in  mortality,  and  is   a 

/  false  concept  because  not  universally  present. 

h""^  Absence  has  no  being  as  an  entity  or  state  of  being  and  cannot 
be  found,  lived,  nor  expressed  by  any  living  being,  for  to  be  is 
to  be  eternally  present.    That  which  absence  strives  to  signify 


242  The  Christ-Law 

cannot  be  thought^  known  or  understood,  for  presence  alone  is 
known  as  something. 

SPIRITUALITY,  the  Love  of  Reality,  Versus  MORTAL- 
ITY, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Mortality  is  the  sense  concept  of  death  or  that  which  has 
beginning  and  end;  it  is  the  belief  that  to  this  impotent  mass  of 
matter  as  the  fleshly  body  is  attached  a  mind  as  a  necessary 
adjunct  thereto.  This  animal  sense  organism  known  as  brain 
is  not  mind  nor  of  mind,  for  mind  is  of  the  soul  and  expresses 
life-action,  love-substance,  truth-perfection  only  as  right  ideas, 
not  sense  imaginations. 

This  sense  mind  of  mortals  is  helpless  to  do  anything  of  itself, 
and  its  office  is  to  register  every  suggestion  from  matter  as 
an  appearance,  but  not  as  a  truth. 

ACTUALITY,  the  Truth  of  Reality,  Versus  FABLE,  as  a 
False  Concept. 

Fable  certainly  is  a  tale  of  mortal  imagination  which  does  not 
pretend  to  have  any  being  in  truth,  for  they  are  fabrications  pure 
and  simple.  Fable  is  not  found  within  the  Christ-law  and  there- 
fore is  no  part  of  truth.  It  is  a  dangerous  practice  to  entertain 
this  subtle  error  even  when  we  know  that  we  are  indulging  in 
imaginations,  for  it  is  not  true  and  will  not  help  us  to  know  the 
truth.    Fables  are  lies  even  if  they  do  not  deceive. 

Just  as  we  declare  with  the  intent  of  the  heart  do  we  become 
individualized,  and  for  this  reason  we  cannot  afford  to  declare 
error  in  any  form  whatsoever  or  for  any  purpose. 

VITALITY,  THE  Life  of  Reality,  Versus  SPIRITLESS,  as 
a  Death  Concept. 

Spiritless  is  that  mortal  sense  concept  of  thing  which  abides 
in  material  suggestions,  refusing  to  act  in  harmony  with  life ;  it  is 
that  useless  sense  of  discouragement  which  blights  all  honest 
efforts  to  be  useful  and  right. 


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To  be  spiritless  does  not  lead  us  into  the  front  ranks  where 
things  are  accomplished,  but  remains  in  mortality  as  a  worthless 
and  dead  nonentity. 

We  must  awake  and  know  that  we  are  not  weak  in  mortality 
but  that  we  are  strong  in  spirituality,  vital  in  life-action  and  able 
to  do  God's  work.  Vitality  is  our  gift  of  active  soul  expression, 
our  dominion  over  everything  earthly. 

UNIVERSALITY,  the  Truth  of  Infinity,  Versus  LIMITA- 
TION, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Limitation  is  another  death  concept  which  hides  from  us  the 
truth  of  being  and  destroys  our  progress  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.  Limitation  is  augmented  most  effectually  by  man  made 
laws  which  are  personally  coercive  for  the  benefit  of  mortals 
instead  of  Christ.  They  are  one  prolific  source  of  fear  and  con- 
fusion, and  not  until  we  arise  above  these  laws  of  might  in  mor- 
tality which  are  substituted  in  the  Christ's  name  for  righteous- 
ness shall  we  be  able  to  free  ourselves  from  their  limitation. 

Universal  law  is  one  state  of  being  in  the  hearts  of  all  men; 
it  can  not  be  improved  upon  neither  prevailed  against,  and  in  it 
we  shall  not  fear. 

ABSOLUTENESS,  the  Life  of  Infinity,  Versus  RESTRIC- 
TION, AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Restriction  is  a  mortal  law  made  by  mortals  for  the  aggrandize- 
ment of  selfishness.  Its  intent  is  to  exalt  mortality  above  the 
law  of  right  that  a  few  may  benefit  in  special  privilege.  This 
vicious  mortal  concept  is  the  cause  of  much  division  among  God's 
children,  for  its  intent  is  destruction.  The  absolute  law  of  the 
Christ  is  for  every  man  alike  and  rules  without  respect  to  person 
and  is  the  way  of  life  and  peace. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  restricted  right  in  this  law  of  the 
Christ  for  his  law  is  perfect,  not  imperfect. 

ETERNITY,  the  Love  of  Infinity,  Versus  MOMENTARI- 
NESS,  AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Momentariness  is  no  part  of  the  one  infinite  presence,  for  the 
eternal  now  cannot  be  divided,  the  never-ending  action  of  the  law 


244  The  Christ-Law 

is  not  suspended  for  an  instant  that  one  moment  may  be  com- 
pleted. This  mortal  concept  of  finished  time  is  no  part  of  im- 
mortal life,  but  is  rather  the  false  mortal  concept  of  end  in  death. 
It  is  the  impotence  of  mortality  standing  up  before  eternal  life- 
action  as  something,  and  must  be  overcome  through  knowing  the 
truth  of  being  in  all  right  ideas  of  the  law  of  perfection.  The 
eternal  now  of  right  being  is  very  near  our  conscience  and  can 
be  grasped  with  certainty  and  known  as  a  fact  in  our  lives. 

PERPETUITY,  THE  Life  of  Presence,  Versus  CESSATION 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Cessation  or  death  is  certainly  a  fearful  concept,  and  has  in  it 
a  sting  of  offense,  which  is  intended  to  frighten  and  cause  all 
of  the  organs  of  the  body  or  being  to  stop  action.  But  pres- 
ence cannot  be  stopped,  neither  can  we  as  active  living  entities 
cease  our  spiritual  presence.  Once  gaining  the  understanding  of 
the  allness  of  the  Christ-law,  we  see  clearly  that  all  is  life-action 
and  that  there  is  no  cessation  except  in  the  false  mortal  conscious- 
ness. Once  realizing  spiritual  life  as  the  everpresent  law  of 
righteousness,  then  death  loses  its  old-time  meaning  of  an  end 
and  means  a  change  in  appearance  only. 

IMMUTABILITY,  the  Love  of  Presence,  Versus  CHANGE- 
ABLENESS,  as  a  Hate  Concept. 

Changeableness  is  mortality  exemplified  in  its  efforts  to  pre- 
vail. It  keeps  switching  from  one  impotent  belief  to  another  in 
the  hopeless  endeavor  to  find  a  footing  and  gain  recognition. 
Mortal  changeableness  in  its  greed  of  selfishness  manifests  utter 
destruction  to  those  who  follow  it.  Its  constant  manifestation  of 
failure  keeps  the  road  hot  with  the  tread  of  mortals,  in  a  wild 
struggle  to  save  self  from  the  consuming  flame  of  the  Christ-law 
of  universal  right.  This  law  has  already  overcome  mortality  and 
set  the  seal  of  nothingness  upon  it. 

EXISTENCE,   the   Truth    of    Presence,   Versus   EXPIRA- 
TION, AS  A  False  Concept. 

Expiration  is  a  mortal  imagination  and  is  without  meaning 
save  that  of  an  end  in  belief.     Expiration  is  a  mortal  interpreta- 


Being  245 

tion  of  the  real  progress  of  life-action,  but  as  mortality  is  death 
in  experience  it  cannot  understand  life-action.  Mortals  know 
nothing  beyond  mortality  or  the  self  concept  of  being,  but  this 
false  sensation  must  disappear  that  true  spiritual  being  may  ap- 
pear. That  which  seemingly  expires  is  our  false  concept  of  mor- 
tality as  an  unlawful  interpretation  of  being  through  mortal 
sense  organism.  Existence  is  within  Spirit  and  not  within  ma- 
terial appearance  or  sense  impressions. 

How  TO  Know  Being. 

In  the  foregoing  pages  there  are  some  very  important  facts 
for  us  to  master,  doubtless  some  changes  in  our  way  of  thinking 
which  will  be  more  or  less  difficult  to  overcome,  because  we  cannot 
gain  our  own  consent  to  do  so.  If  these  seeming  obstacles  are 
not  mastered  we  shall  find  trouble  in  the  future  efforts  which  we 
make  to  heal  ourselves  and  others,  for  our  chain  of  true  law  will 
be  broken  and  we  shall  be  helpless  to  understand. 

There  is  one  way  of  perfect  right,  whether  we  like  it  or  not, 
and  it  alone  in  its  purity  must  be  followed  absolutely.  It  may 
be  days  or  even  weeks  before  we  can  gain  our  own  consent  to 
acknowledge  the  allness  of  good  and  perceive  clearly  the  one 
rightness  of  such  an  argument.  Then,  experience  the  mind-action 
in  manifestation  upon  our  bodies,  for  body  is  under  the  control 
of  mind-action  either  for  good  or  evil.  It  is  a  demonstrable 
fact  that  the  body  attunes  itself  in  perfect  harmony  with  the 
active  mind  and  that  it  abides  under  its  influence. 

The  subject  of  healing  is  contained  in  knowing  the  facts  of 
the  Christ-law  of  good  and  love,  and  we  have  our  Saviour's  word 
for  it  that  we  shall  know  the  truth,  and  that  it  is  the  knowing  of 
this  truth  which  is  to  make  us  free  from  mortal  imaginations. 

We  cannot  know  a  lie,  for  it  has  no  truth  or  substance  to  be 
known,  there  is  no  true  being  there  to  express.  This  leaves  us 
with  the  law  of  truth  alone  as  that  which  has  being  and  that 
which  can  be  expressed. 

When  we  have  accomplished  the  change  of  thought  in  this 
point  of  the  Star  and  turned  from  following  two  standards  of  in- 
terpretation as  those  of  sense  and  soul,  we  may  begin  to  study  the 


246  The  Christ-Law 

following  tables  with  an  assurance  of  gaining  their  spiritual  ex- 
pression. 

We  shall  then  come  into  a  new  birth  of  understanding,  which  is 
that  mind-action  is  all  action,  and  therein  be  delivered  from 
sense  suggestion  and  the  terror  of  death  concepts  as  a  result 
and  reward  of  sin,  fury  and  confusion. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
Star : 

The  Tables  of  the  Eighth  Point  of  the  Star  of  Being. 

Table  One. 
The  life-action  of  active  Life  equals  life's  active  Being. 

Table  Two. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Being  equals  love's  substantial 
Reality. 

The  life-action  of  active  Being  equals  life's  active  Infinity. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Being  equals  truth's  perfect  Pres- 
ence. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Being  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind  are  Reality, 
Infinity,  Presence.     These  ideas  represent  Being. 

Table  Three. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Reality  equals  life's  active  Spir- 
ituality. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Reality  equals  truth's  perfect 
Actuality. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Reality  equals  love's  substantial 
Vitality. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Reality  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Spirituality,  Actuality,  Vitality.   These  ideas  represent  Reality. 


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Table  Four. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Infinity  equals  love's  substantial 
Universality. 

The  life-action  of  active  Infinity  equals  life's  active  Absolute- 
ness. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Infinity  equals  truth's  perfect 
Eternity. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  deevloped  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Infinity  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Universality^  Absoluteness,  Eternity.  These  ideas  represent  In- 
finity. 

Table  Five. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Presence  equals  truth's  perfect 
Perpetuity. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Presence  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial  Immutability. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Presence  equals  life's  active 
Existence. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Presence  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Perpetuity,  Immutability,  Existence.  These  three  ideas  repre- 
sent Presence. 

In  the  same  way  that  we  studied  the  preceding  tables  must 
we  study  these,  for  we  are  to  profit  only  by  knowing  their  spir- 
itual meaning,  and  thereby  be  able  to  express  them  as  a  soul  ex- 
perience of  the  Christ-law. 

Having  these  established  within  consciousness  we  shall  be  able 
to  interpret  the  scriptures  according  to  one  right  meaning,  which 
is  not  one  of  mortal  opinion,  but  is  the  ever-present  universal  law 
of  right. 

It  is  spiritually  perceived  and  leads  us  into  the  kingdom  of 
harmony  through  an  ability  to  heal  every  erroneous  state  of 
being. 

The  Association  of  the  Ideas  Within  the  Point  of  the  Star 

OF  Being. 
The  association  of  the  ideas  within  this  point  and  those  of  the 
other  points  will  reveal  the  way  of  our  growth,  for  the  relation 


248  The  Christ-Law 

of  these  ideas  with  others  gives  them  meaning  and  helps  to  es- 
tablish them  in  consciousness.  These  are  the  spiritual  states  of 
being  which  are  to  be  known  and  to  give  us  power  to  prevail  over 
evil  suggestion  from  the  source  of  sense  testimony. 

Beginning  with  reality,  we  find  that  it  has  a  relation  with  con- 
secration, and  is  perfected  in  the  knowledge  of  science. 

Infinity  is  related  with  sanctity  and  is  perfected  in  law. 

Presence  is  related  with  purity  and  is  perfected  in  order. 

These  related  ideas  are  one  concept  of  Being  which  is  com- 
plete in  its  life-love-truth-meaning,  and  enables  us  to  grasp  the 
full  understanding  of  Being. 

Out  of  the  consciousness  of  creation  comes  to  us  a  realization 
of  something  which  is  real  and  true,  something  which  is  not  man 
made  and  impotent,  but  universal  law  as  reality. 

Out  of  the  concept  of  creation  and  reality  do  we  get  the  un- 
derstanding of  infinity.  We  are  taught  thereby  its  exact  meaning 
as  a  state  of  consciousness  and  enabled  to  express  it. 

Out  of  reality  and  infinity  as  infinite  reality  do  we  get  the 
realization  of  presence,  not  as  material  objects,  but  as  a  spiritual 
law  of  being  within  us. 

And  now,  when  we  take  them  all  together,  we  find  that  being 
and  its  counterparts  mean  one  and  the  same  thing,  for  a  real 
infinite  presence  would  surely  equal  immortal  being. 

Out  of  construction  and  goodness  comes  the  perfect  idea  of 
spirituality  as  that  state  of  consciousness  which  is  immortal  and 
Christlike. 

Out  of  goodness  and  spirituality  comes  the  concept  of  actuality 
as  that  state  of  being  which  is  real  and  true. 

Out  of  spirituality  and  actuality  we  get  the  concept  of  vitality, 
which  is  one  of  active  life,  in  its  energy  of  living  every  good  idea 
as  a  state  of  perfect  being. 

Out  of  actuality  and  vitality  comes  the  realization  of  uni- 
versality, the  universal  life-action  which  makes  up  the  realm  of 
the  universe.  It  is  within  this  Universality  as  law  that  we  move 
and  have  our  being. 

Out  of  vitality  and  universality  comes  the  concept  of  absolute- 
ness as  that  which  cannot  be  overcome  and  destroved.     That  which 


Being  249 

is  fixed  and  permanent  for  all  time  as  the  ever-present  now  of 
presence. 

Out  of  universality  and  absoluteness  comes  the  concept  of  one 
eternal  now  as  eternity,  the  never-ending  life-action  of  Mind. 

Out  of  absoluteness  and  eternity  is  revealed  unto  us  the  mean- 
ing of  perpetuity  as  the  never-ending  perfect  presence. 

Out  of  eternity  and  perpetuity  comes  the  concept  of  immuta- 
bility which  is  the  one  state  of  perfect  right  as  a  law  of  presence. 

Out  of  perpetuity  and  immutability  comes  the  concept  of  ex- 
istence as  spiritual  law,  for  there  is  none  other  law  which  can 
be  known  and  lived,  and  manifest  the  action  of  life. 

These  are  the  ideas  of  the  point  of  Being  as  far  as  the  fourth 
revelation  of  Mind's  meaning.  They  give  us  a  good  start  in  find- 
ing out  just  what  Mind  means,  also  of  spiritual  being  as  ex- 
pressed by  God's  children. 

These  relations  within  this  point  of  the  Star  must  be  studied 
until  we  fully  realize  their  connection  with  our  conscience  and 
its  power  to  express  a  spiritual  state  of  being. 

The  more  familiar  that  we  become  with  them  Jhe  greater 
power  of  expression  will  we  have  and  the  quicker  and  better 
healing  will  we  do. 

Bible  Records  as  Related  to  the  Law  of  Being. 

The  Eighth  Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20:2  and  15,  we  read  "I  am  the  Lord  thy  God 
which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of  the 
house  of  bondage."     Therefore — 

"Thou  shalt  not  steal.'* 

Having  been  lifted  up  above  mortal  imaginations  and  given 
true  knowledge  of  intelligence  and  thereby  come  into  being  as 
a  state  of  realized  spirituality,  we  shall  not  want  or  be  able  to 
find  anything  of  which  we  have  not  already  an  abundance. 
Everything  of  true  being  is  already  ours  and  it  is  just  like  our 
neighbor's,  therefore  we  shall  not  steal,  cannot  steal,  for  this 
concept  in  its  falsity  has  been  lost  to  conscience. 

Having  free  access  to  our  Father's  supply,  from  which  no 
power  can  cut  us  off,  then  we  shall  not  want  in  any  way  or  for 
anything. 


250  The  Christ-Law 

Our  Father's  perfect  law  of  righteousness  is  all  that  we  can 
possibly  know  or  receive  in  truth.  It  is  absolutely  free  to  all  men 
and  cannot  be  contaminated  with  mortal  laws  of  coercion  and  self- 
ishness. No  one  shall  presume  to  mortgage  this  law  and  exploit 
it  for  their  own  especial  benefit, 

God's  word  is  given  to  all  men  freely  and  cannot  be  hemmed 
in^  withheld  from  some  and  protected  by  impotent  man-made 
laws  for  others^  for  it  is  supreme  and  free.  When  we  realize  this 
fact  and  arise  above  mortality^  then  shall  we  have  found  the  king- 
dom of  heaven  within  and  all  other  things  added. 

There  will  be  nothing  unlawful  worth  our  stealings  and  as  all 
things  lawful  are  already  ours  we  shall  not  perceive  the  mortal 
concept  of  theft^  for  we  shall  have  overcome  this  belief. 

The   Eighth   Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5:10^  we  read  the  eighth  beatitude. 

"Blessed  are  they  who  are  persecuted  for  righteousness  sake; 
for  theirs'  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven." 

There  is 'a  meaning  and  application  very  near  home  in  this 
beatitude.  The  children  of  Israel  should  take  notice,  for  Christ's 
blessing  upon  this  head  of  the  law  is  the  one  which  we  are  all 
striving  to  attain  and  manifest.  To  faithfully  serve  the  law  of 
righteousness  in  the  business  world  of  today  is  no  worse  than  it 
ever  was  because  we  have  the  same  mortal  traits  of  character  to 
contend  with^  as  those  of  greed  and  selfishness. 

To  be  sure^  the  time  of  open  persecution  because  of  worshiping 
Christ  in  absoluteness  has  gone  by^  but  it  is  still  done  craftily  and 
secretly  through  mental  means  as  in  evil  treatments  in  hate  in- 
stead of  love. 

These  mortals  in  their  ignorance  who  are  striving  to  force 
either  coercion  or  death  upon  others  are  sowing  a  whirlwind  of 
fury  for  themselves^  and  their  work  of  hate  shall  not  prevail 
against  the  true  disciple  of  the  Christ. 

When  an  honest  person  shall  undertake  to  live  righteously  and 
serve  the  Christ  in  all  that  he  does  he  is  brought  forcibly  in  con- 
tact with  the  deceitful^  graftings  selfish  interests^  with  the  ego- 
tistical,  heartless   money   getters   who   stop    at   nothing  to   win. 


Being  251 

Those  already  dead  mortals  who  sacrifice  the  innocent  trust  and 
love  of  right  to  their  god  of  profit,  little  knowing  that  it  is  their 
own  death.     But  blessed  is  he  that  is  apart  from  these  things. 

This  opposition  of  the  mortal  in  death  expressions  who  sees 
no  further  than  the  ill-gotten  gain  within  his  hand  does  not  ter- 
rify the  man  who  is  born  of  God  and  his  wisdom,  and  who  realizes 
the  everlasting  power  of  righteousness.  He  seeks  not  to  get  the 
death  which  is  hidden  within  these  material  possessions,  but  is 
content  with  a  just  profit,  and  does  not  lack  for  food  and  the 
needs  of  living. 

The   Lord's   Prayer. 

In  Matt.  6:13,  we  read  the  eighth  section  of  the  Lord's  Prayer. 

**But  deliver  us  from  evil." 

To  gain  a  concept  of  life  within  the  Christ-Mind  as  construc- 
tive good  will  surely  deliver  us  from  the  death  concept  of  evil. 
Our  concepts  of  evil  come  to  us  through  the  sense  imaginations 
of  mortality,  and  when  we  enter  into  the  intelligence  of  the  law 
we  find  true  being  in  Christ. 

True  soul  interpretations  of  the  law  of  life-love-truth  will 
deliver  us  from  the  evil  sense  interpretations  which  bring  confu- 
sion and  fury  into  our  experiences.  This  point  of  the  Star  when 
known  will  lead  us  out  of  the  way  of  evil  thinking,  for  the  death 
concepts  will  not  be  expressed. 

Being  as  the  life  of  life  is  our  immortal  existence  in  the  law 
and  is  unknown  to  the  deceiving  sense  in  its  suggestions  of  fail- 
ure and  death  as  evil  expression. 

The  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

In  Matt.  7:13  to  21,  we  read  what  Jesus  had  to  say  about  the 
law  of  being  as  the  life  of  life.  He  tells  us  that  we  must  separate 
the  concepts  of  death  from  those  of  life;  that  is,  the  seeming 
reality  of  materiality  from  the  certain  reality  of  spirituality  ex- 
pressed in  the  soul. 

We  are  warned  to  be  ever  watchful  that  we  may  distinguish 
the  right  from  the  wrong  and  learn  the  good  which  is  within  the 
right. 

In  verse  13,  he  says,  ^'Enter  in  at  the  strait  gate" — that  is, 
enter  into  life  through  knowing  the  straight  law  as  an  absolute 


252  The  Christ-Law 

way^  enter  into  real  or  right  being  as  the  life  within  Spirit.  Then 
he  said  that  the  attractions  and  distractions  or  sense  appearance 
of  those  things  of  outer  darkness  which  deceive  are  many  and 
that  the  way  of  them  is  broad  and  that  it  is  strewn  with  errors  of 
destructions.  The  temptations  of  mortals  to  follow  after  mor- 
tality are  very  great  and  cannot  be  overcome  without  the  help 
of  our  Father. 

Jesus  says  that  there  are  many  who  go  over  this  road  for  the 
sake  of  enjoying  its  attractions  and  then  suiffer  its  distractions, but 
that  because  the  way  of  the  law  is  absolute  and  strait,  uncom- 
promising and  coercive  in  its  rulings,  and  being  narrow  in  its 
straitness  of  right,  not  varying  or  deviating  at  all;  that  for 
this  reason  few  people  shall  care  to  or  be  able  to  enter  into  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  Its  demands  will  be  more  than  they  can 
endure;  that  is,  perfection  is  too  high  a  standard  for  the  majority 
of  mortals  to  attain. 

He  bids  us  to  beware  of  false  prophets  who  for  some  reason 
corrupt  the  presentation  of  the  one  perfect  law  of  righteousness 
to  make  it  easy  for  people  and  to  conform  to  their  desires;  that 
is,  so  that  they  can  retain  their  errors  of  mortality.  But  he  says 
that  we  shall  know  them  by  their  works.  They  cannot  help  but 
expose  their  true  nature,  and  the  evil  within  their  hearts  will 
come  to  the  surface  where  it  can  be  seen. 

Grapes  do  not  bear  thorns,  neither  do  thistles  bear  figs,  but  an 
evil  heart  will  give  forth  evil  expression  and  it  cannot  help 
doing  it. 

Jesus  says  that  a  good  tree  as  that  of  the  law  of  righteousness 
within  our  heart's  consciousness  will  bear  good  works  and  mani- 
fest true  being,  and  that  just  as  we  are  in  heart  that  fruit  will 
be  born  of  this  intent. 

The  law  of  being  as  the  life  of  life  is  a  good  tree,  and  will  give 
forth  good  works  as  fruit  to  all  who  follow  it.  But  everyone 
who  shall  not  follow  it  shall  bear  evil  fruit  and  be  cut  down  there- 
by, the  sorrow  and  fire  of  fear  within  mortality  shall  hew  at  the 
roots  of  this  being  and  he  shall  be  cast  down.  Fruit  as  an  abil- 
ity to  heal  the  sick  and  -reform  the  sinning  conscience  through 
concepts  of  the  law  of  the  Christ  are  found  within  this  head  of 
the   law   of   Being. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

WISDOM 

THE  Love  of  I-tfe. 

A  Law  of  Substantial  Spiritual  Expression. 

Wisdom  as  the  love-substance  of  life  is  the  sealing  power  of 
knowledge  through  love's  possession  within  the  realm  of  life. 
Wisdom  is  the  third  power  of  Mind  which  compels  us  to  know 
because  of  the  convincing  evidence  of  love's  presence  in  pos- 
session. 

When  we  realize  the  substantial  possession  of  constructive  good 
in  wisdom,  and  have  those  ideas  which  constitute  wisdom  firmly 
fixed  in  our  conscience,  we  shall  have  a  mighty  power  of  right 
thought  to  prevail  against  every  sense  suggestion.  The  things 
of  the  carnal  mind  which  always  give  offense  and  which  cause 
sin  as  transgression  of  the  law  will  be  overcome. 

When  we  know  truth's  substance  as  found  in  righteousness, 
and  life's  substance  as  found  in  wisdom,  also  love's  substance  as 
found  in  holiness,  then  shall  we  be  free  from  the  sting  of  offense 
as  hate  within  the  mortal  consciousness.  Its  ignorance  and  im- 
potence shall  not  overcome  us  because  we  know  substantial  love 
as  a  possession,  for  perfect  love  casteth  out  all  hate  from  our 
conscience. 

When  we  know  life's  perfection  as  found  in  intelligence,  and 
love's  perfection  as  found  in  harmony,  and  truth's  perfection 
as  found  in  principle,  we  shall  be  free  from  falsehood  as  a  sense 
illusion.  The  counterfeit  will  no  longer  pass  as  legal  within 
our  thoughts  because  we  know  the  three  phases  of  truth  in  per- 
fection. It  is  even  as  our  Saviour  said,  **Ye  shall  know  the  truth, 
and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free." 


254  The  Christ-Law 

When  we  know  love's  action  as  found  in  obedience^  and  truth's 
action  as  found  in  dominion^  also  life's  action  as  found  in  being, 
we  shall  be  whole  indeed  and  free  from  sin^  sickness  and  disease. 

We  shall  have  to  experience  this  knowing  within  the  soul  as  an 
expression  of  love's  substance^  truth's  perfection,  also  life's  ac- 
tion, and  realize  that  it  is  the  testimony  of  Spirit  to  our  spirit 
in  the  conscience,  for  this  conscience  is  our  one  and  only  place 
and  source  of  authoritative  knowing.  The  seat  of  wisdom  is 
there.     The  law  of  God  expressed  therein. 

In  the  above  is  revealed  the  way  of  perfect  understanding 
through  the  powers  of  Mind.  The  real  and  true  law  is  given  in 
the  life-love-truth-meaning  of  the  Christ-Mind,  and  every  right 
idea  which  comes  into  conscience  must  be  measured  by  this  one 
true  standard.  Those  ideas  which  can  stand  the  test  of  the  meas- 
ure of  good  and  are  within  the  law  of  life-love- truth  are  entitled 
to  claim  the  source  and  authority  of  Spirit.  These  ideas  alone 
are  worthy  of  our  allegiance  and  they  alone  will  lead  us  into 
the  realm  of  wisdom. 

Therefore  every  idea  which  comes  into  conscience  must  have 
the  approval  and  manifest  the  evident  presence  of  every  head  of 
the  law,  before  it  can  claim  to  be  a  right  and  perfect  state  of 
conscious  being,  useful  to  men  in  making  them  wise  in  their 
thoughts. 

This  is  a  tremendous  test  both  as  to  the  idea's  spirituality  and 
our  own  spiritual  development  and  ability  to  perceive  and  under- 
stand wherein  the  nine  heads  of  the  law  are  present  and  how 
they  apply. 

There  is  no  alternative  for  us  but  to  obey,  no  choice  of  laws, 
for  there  is  one  law  only,  and  when  we  satisfy  its  demands  we 
shall  find  it  sure  and  final  in  its  ruling.  By  this  is  meant  that 
we  must  arise  to  the  heights  of  wisdom  and  deny  our  own  selfish 
desires  and  ambitions  in  order  to  attain  wisdom. 

The  following  will  make  this  even  more  clearly  discerned,  and 
is  a  part  of  the  law  of  Mind.  When  justice  is  seated  within  our 
conscience,  its  presence  therein  testifies  of  righteousness,  wisdom, 
holiness,  as  the  substance  of  love  made  manifest.  It  also  testifies 
of  intelligence,  harmony  and  principle,  as  the  perfection  of  the 


Wisdom  ^55 

law  in  truth.     Again,  of  obedience,  dominion  and  being,  as  the 
b'fe-action  within  the  law. 

Thus  we  see  that  justice  testifies  of  the  entire  nine  heads  of 
the  law  and  enables  us  to  know  the  full  meaning  of  this  idea  as 
a  state  of  consciousness  in  its  perfection  and  complete  use. 

It  will  be  seen  that  this  test  for  all  ideas  which  we  shall  learn 
to  use  and  obey  covers  the  wisdom  of  the  law  in  all  of  its  re- 
quirements. 

This  may  seem  a  good  deal  of  a  task  to  perform  in  order  to 
gain  a  perfect  knowledge  of  the  law  pertaining  to  ideas  as  states 
of  conscious  being,  but  if  we  would  learn  them  to  some  use  and 
purpose  this  is  the  one  sure  way  which  will  bring  results.  In 
the  declaration  of  these  right  ideas  does  our  conscience  become 
like  them,  not  in  the  sense  appearance  as  seen  in  others,  but  in 
the  soul  experience  of  them  within  our  own  conscience.  Through 
them  are  we  elevated  into  truth's  active  dominion,  into  life's  sub- 
stantial wisdom  and  also  into  love's  perfect  harmony. 

By  these  spiritual  concepts  of  the  law  is  our  conscience  sealed 
and  made  perfect  through  the  powers  of  Mind;  we  are  given  an 
understanding  of  the  presence  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  within. 

Intelligence  as  the  truth  of  life,  because  of  its  perfect  action, 
is  bound  to  produce  energy  as  a  spontaneous  action  of  mind  in 
the  will  to  understand  and  know.  This  constitutes  our  conscience 
at  work  manifesting  the  living  energy  of  being.  To  this  living 
energy  of  active  life  we  adhere  because  it  is  understood  and  pro- 
duces a  realization  of  constructive  good,  all  of  which  is  satis- 
factory and  final.  This  living,  active  Spirit  works  within  our 
conscience  to  produce  the  love-substance  of  life  or  wisdom.  As 
constructive  good  is  all  that  is  understood,  then  we  cannot  under- 
stand, neither  know,  until  we  have  reached  the  state  of  wisdom 
in  each  right  idea,  which  is  to  come  into  our  possession  as  con- 
structive good  in  action.  Therefore  all  ideas  in  Mind  symbolizing 
life's  action  as  constructive  good  are  fulfilled  and  our  knowing 
sealed  within  conscience  through  the  possession  of  love's  sub- 
stance. That  is,  all  life  as  constructive  good  becomes  all  power- 
ful when  perceived  as  substance. 


256  The  Christ-Law 

Wisdom  is  the  substantial  substance  of  all  perfect  law^  and  in- 
cludes every  right  idea  within  the  law^  for  it  is  the  substance  of 
all  thought. 

How  TO  Know  Wisdom. 

How  can  I  gain  an  understanding  of  the  ninth  head  of  the 
law  in  wisdom  in  order  to  complete  the  possession  of  the  three 
powers  of  Mind  which  compel  the  conscience  to  receive  the  law? 
For  this  point  of  the  Star  is  the  final  touch  of  enlightenment  to 
the  children  of  God^  whose  children  are  justified  by  wisdom. 

First,  by  gaining  an  understanding  of  the  Christ  meaning  of 
wisdom.  Demonstration  is  the  life-action  of  wisdom.  Sagacity 
is  the  love-substance  of  wisdom.  Knowledge  is  the  truth-perfec- 
tion of  wisdom. 

Demonstration  is  the  complete  proof  to  manifest  the  possession 
of  wisdom,  the  ability  through  actual  knowledge  of  the  law  by 
knowing  just  how  to  use  it  under  all  circumstances. 

Sagacity  is  a  discerning  and  penetrating  power  of  mind  equal 
at  all  times  to  any  emergency,  tranquil  and  confident  in  perspi- 
cacity and  sageness  and  able  fully  to  grasp  the  profound  things 
of  the  law.  Ever  equal  to  the  associations  and  relations  of  perfect 
thoughts  as  states  of  being  and  their  application  to  our  lives. 

Knowledge  is  the  completed  and  perfected  state  of  informa- 
tion as  portrayed  by  the  thoughts  of  God  or  perfect  idea  entities, 
those  states  of  right  being  which  God  created  in  the  beginning 
and  made  complete  and  perfect,  finished  and  gave  to  his  offspring 
to  produce,  with  the  command  that  they  should  walk  therein  and 
become  perfect.  It  is  these  states  of  perfect  Mind  expression 
which  constitute  the  realm  of  wisdom.  Erudite  comprehension 
of  God*s  thoughts  bring  us  into  close  touch  with  the  law  wherein 
knowledge  is  perceived  to  be  the  expression  of  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection. 

To  be  wise  in  wisdom  is  to  express  an  understanding  conscious- 
ness of  the  infinite  relations  and  associations  of  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection,  in  its  ever-expanding  circle  of  Mind's 
revelations.  This  is  our  immortal  life-action  in  attaining  unto 
God's  wisdom  in  the  spiritual  development  of  the  soul's  knowing 
of  constructive  good  as  all. 


Wisdom  257 

Wisdom  as  the  love-substance  of  life-action  is  the  last  point 
of  the  Star  and  is  to  signify  the  actual  possession  of  substantial 
love  within  conscience.  The  power  of  attraction  of  love  or  good 
within  wisdom  which  we  would  possess  is  that  power  of  Mind 
which  compels  us  to  know  when  it  is  possessed. 

Wisdom  is  the  result  of  perfect  knowledge  about  the  relation 
of  love  ideas  the  one  with  the  other.  It  is  a  state  of  constant 
growth  and  progress  with  each  individual^  and  it  is  the  action 
of  mental  faculties  upon  these  relations  in  their  triple  meaning 
which  constitutes  our  understanding  and  the  fullness  of  wisdom. 

Mind  without  its  triple  meaning  of  life,  love,  truth,  with  which 
we  can  exercise  our  thought  in  comparisons  and  gain  an  active 
meaning  thereby,  could  not  otherwise  be  understood,  because 
there  would  not  be  occasion  for  mind  action  which  gives  life  and 
understanding. 

As  it  is  in  mathematics  that  the  thought  of  2  plus  2  gives  need 
for  a  third  concept  as  4,  so  it  is  in  other  branches  of  thought, 
for  the  sum  of  life  and  love  equal  truth,  the  sum  of  love  and  truth 
equal  life  and  the  sum  of  truth  and  life  equal  love.  Here  we  have 
our  start  in  the  relation  of  Mind  ideas,  and  this  law  is  carried 
out  into  infinite  being. 

In  the  following  examples  it  will  be  well  to  consult  the  diagram 
of  the  Star  in  order  to  see  the  relation  of  the  three  realms  of  life, 
love,  truth  ideas  pertaining  to  the  same  concept  in  its  fullness: 

Obedient  righteousness  equals  intelligence. 
Infallible   demonstration   equals   peace. 
Knowledge  and  freedom  equal  power. 
Comprehension  and  health  equal  finality. 
Absolute  grace  equals  standard. 
Experience  and  allegiance  equal  reason. 

These  are  a  few  of  the  relations  which  will  open  the  way  to 
further  thought  by  the  individual.  For  there  is  no  thought  or 
understanding  except  in  the  realization  of  God's  presence  in 
things ;  that  is,  in  the  action  of  life  in  its  relation  to  love  and 
truth. 


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The  Christ-Law 


This  is  wisdom  and  covers  every  phase  of  mental  being  as 
soul  expressions  of  the  law.  They  are  ours  to  have  just  as  soon 
as  we  get  ready  to  work  and  attain  them,  but  this  method  of 
thought  action  according  to  a  fixed  law  of  life-action,  love-sub- 
stance, truth-perfection  is  absolute  in  its  demands.  For  this  rea- 
son few  will  consent  to  give  up  the  personality  of  mortality  in 
order  to  gain  the  absolute  expression  of  the  law. 

No  one  today  knows  just  what  can  be  demonstrated  by  the 
continued  effort  to  express  this  law  of  absolute  Christianity  in 
which  no  material  laws  figure  as  a  help  to  truth's  prevailing. 

Wisdom  is  the  love-substance  of  life,  and  the  intelligent  being 
as  an  offspring  from  the  Father-Mind  or  Spirit  expresses  right 
ideas  in  its  mental  action  only.  Solomon  and  David  both  realized 
this  fact  perfectly,  for  it  is  given  by  them  in  the  records  left  in 
Prov.  1:23,  "I  will  pour  out  my  spirit  upon  you,  I  will  make 
known  my  words  unto  you." 

In  Prov.  4:7,  ''Wisdom  is  the  principal  thing;  therefore  get 
wisdom,  and  with  all  thy  getting  get  understanding." 

Psalms  19:7j  "The  law  of  the  Lord  is  perfect,  converting  the 
soul;  the  testimony  of  the  Lord  is  sure,  making  wise  the  simple." 


A  Table  of  Comparison  of  Good  and  Evil  Ideas  in  the 
Point  of  Wisdom. 


Wisdom 
Idiocy 


f  Demonstration     j  S^???^^^^""" 
Neglect  ^^^^^^ 


Sagacity 
Foolishness 


Knowledge 
Imagination 


Sufficiency 
Mystery 
( Manifestation      Supposition 


(  Attainment 
->  Perspicuity 
(  Sageness 


Superstition 

Ambiguity 

Silliness 


i  Information  Illusion 

<  Erudition  Illiteracy 

(Comprehension   Void 


Wisdom  259 

WISDOM^  THE    Love    of    Life,   versus    IDIOCY,   as   a   Hate 

Concept. 

Idiocy  is  a  death  manifestation  and  is  without  beings  every 
mortal  imagination  coming  from  sense  suggestion  is  the  same 
thing  from  the  standpoint  of  spiritual  reality^  because  it  can- 
not be  accounted  for  through  reason  in  wisdom.  It  is  the  same 
sense  mind  which  expresses  idiocy  and  also  the  nothingness  of 
death  in  every  sensation  of  evil. 

It  is  impossible  to  conceive  of  an  all-powerful  law  of  right 
which  expresses  supreme  and  absolute  wisdom  in  the  perfection 
of  all  things  to  express  idiocy  also  in  conjunction  with  supreme 
perfection. 

We  know  that  there  is  no  such  concept  within  the  law  of  the 
Christ-Mind^  neither  can  we  find  a  place  for  such  a  sense  of  noth- 
ingness in  the  realm  of  life.  Therefore  it  must  be  a  false  expres- 
sion of  the  carnal  mind  of  mortals  or  an  imagination,  a  fabric 
of  superstition,  a  product  of  that  deceiving  sense  which  leads  to 
murder,  theft  and  blasphemy. 

We  must  not  overlook  the  fact  that  the  great  mass  of  mortals 
abide  within  this  same  sense-mind  and  partake  of  its  destruction 
daily. 

Wisdom  is  the  expression  of  the  ideas  of  God  in  his  law  of 
good  alone,  they  manifest  the  power  which  is  inherent  within 
spiritual  expression  and  lead  every  mortal  out  of  his  illusion  of 
the  reality  of  sense  testimony. 

■DEMONSTRATION,    the    Love    of    Wisdom,    versus    DE- 
FAULT,  AS  A   Death   Concept. 

Default  is  a  very  common  expression  among  mortals,  and  is  a 
very  erroneous  state  to  be  in,  for  it  surely  condemns  us  in  the 
eyes  of  our  neighbor  as  well  as  in  the  judgment  of  the  law. 

We  must  understand  that  we  were  not  wise  in  not  using  the 
law  to  help  us  do  our  work  in  solving  our  problem,  but  through 
self-will  our  efforts   proved  of  no  avail. 

Without  law  and  order  as  power  of  spirit  to  save  us  from  dis- 
[aster  we  would  be  helpless,  for  we  alone  are  impotent;  we  must 


260  The  Christ-Law 

seek  the  understanding  of  the  law's  action  in  real  life  and  abide 
under  the  banner  of  the  Christ  if  we  desire  to  surely  and  cer- 
tainly succeed. 

SAGACITY,  THE  Love  of  Wisdom,  versus  FOOLISHNESS, 
AS  A  Hate   Concept. 

Foolishness  is  such  a  common  word  among  mortals  that  it 
seems  almost  unwise  to  say  a  word  about  it;  this  may  be  the 
very  reason  why  a  word  should  be  said,  for  to  have  and  hold 
this  condemnatory  concept  within  consciousness  is  sure  bondage 
to  mortality  in   expressing   destruction. 

The  less  that  we  think  of  foolishness  and  our  mistakes  the 
further  will  we  get  away  from  them  and  their  influence,  for  this 
very  thing  is  that  which  hides  the  truth  of  the  right  in  the  law. 

Sagacity  is  manifest  in  the  perseverance  of  good  thoughts  and 
by  refusing  to  listen  to  the  suggestions  of  the  bad  ones. 

KNOWLEDGE,  the   Truth   of  Wisdom,  versus   IMAGINA- 
TION, AS  A   False   Concept. 

Imagination  is  the  thing  which  holds  us  in  the  grasp  of  death 
and  fury^  confusion  and  ignorance.  How  very  different  is  knowl- 
edge in  its  satisfying  power  from  the  imaginations  of  the  mortal- 
sense-mind,  none  of  which  can  be  understood,  for  they  are  not 
true,  but  supply  us  with  our  concept  of  mystery  and  confusion ! 

Superstitious  imaginations  instill  fear  into  our  conscience, 
which  is  no  part  of  God's  wisdom,  based  upon  an  absolute  law  of 
love  and  good.  This  absolute  law  must  be  our  food  daily  until 
we  receive  wisdom  and  command  all  conditions  with  certainty. 

COMPLETION,  THE  Truth  of  Demonstration,  versus  SUF- 
FICIENCY,  AS   A   False    Concept. 

Sufficiency  is  a  very  subtle  state  of  mortal  consciousness,  for 
its  intent  is  to  defraud  us  out  of  the  concept  of  perfection.  We 
must  not  be  satisfied  with  sufficiency,  for  there  is  no  life  nor 
peace  within  it.     The  mortal  expression  of  good  enough  is  a  bad 


Wisdom  261 

onCy  for  it  stops  just  this  side  of  being  perfect,,  in  which  we  never 
attain  perfection. 

This  concept  will  defeat  demonstration  and  prevent  us  from 
becoming  perfect  within  the  law;  we  must  be  complete  in  the 
law's  expression  and  cannot  be  satisfied  with  halfway  measures 
if  we  would  put  off  the  stigma  of  mortal  consciousness  in  error. 

PROOF^  THE  Life  of  Demonstration^  versus  MYSTERY,  as 
A    Death    Concept. 

Mystery  is  the  sense  of  confusion  and  comes  to  us  because  of 
not  understanding;  it  is  a  mortal  belief  in  something  which  is  not 
known,  something  apart  from  the  regular  law  and  order  of  the 
Christ-Mind.  Nothing  comes  to  us  from  the  sense  of  mystery 
but  fear,  and  everyone  knows  that  this  is  not  good  or  love.  That 
which  can  be  known  is  not  mysterious,  but  that  which  cannot  be 
known  is  a  constant  worry,  even  until  we  perceive  its  destruc- 
tive intent  and  nature,  when  we  overcome  it  by  turning  to  that 
which  satisfies. 

There  is  no  mystery  within  the  perfect  law  of  the  Christ  for 
every  right  idea  is  understood  and  expressed  without  confusion. 

MANIFESTATION,    the    Love    of    Demonstration^    versus 
SUPPOSITION,  as  a  Hate  Concept. 

Supposition  is  a  mortal  suggestion  without  any  authority  be- 
hind it  as  a  foundation  of  substance.  Its  intent  is  to  put  upon  us 
a  counterfeit  state  of  being  as  a  death  concept  in  the  place  of  a 
lawful  expression  of  life-action.  Its  assumption  and  claim  is  to 
attract  or  distract  our  attention,  and  in  this  way  lead  us  astray 
and  away  from  the  Christ. 

As  assumption,  suppostion  or  suggestion  is  not  found  within 
the  Christ-law,  then  we  must  not  notice  its  demands  and  preten- 
sions, for  they  are  nothingness  and  cannot  be  manifested.  Mani- 
festation of  the  Christ-law  alone  will  lead  us  into  the  Christ  con- 
sciousness of  spiritual  healing. 


262  The  Christ-Law 

ATTAINMENT,  the  Life  of  Sagacity,  versus  SUPERSTI- 
TION, AS  A   Death   Concept. 

Superstition  is  a  mortal  error  in  bondage  to  ignorance,  in  which 
fear  holds  sway  and  keeps  the  individual  in  blindness.  People 
seldom  gain  their  freedom  until  they  come  into  contact  with 
God's  perfect  law;  then  they  find  a  heart's  realization  which 
seems  to  have  always  been  there,  but  has  been  covered  up.  When 
this  spiritual  sense  is  once  discovered  the  foolish,  superstitious, 
meaningless  imagination  is  cast  out  forever. 

To  attain  this  knowledge  of  absolute  law  is  to  gain  power  and 
dominion  over  superstition,  for  everything  is  reduced  to  facts  and 
certainty. 

The  mortal  consciousness  as  the  source  of  all  superstition  is 
laid  aside  as  untrustworthy,  and  the  superstitious  religious  rites 
installed  by  unscrupulous  men  that  they  might  rule  others 
through  fear  are  overcome. 

PERSPICUITY,    the    Love    of    Sagacity,    versus    AMBIG- 
UITY, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Ambiguity  is  the  result  of  attention  to  sense  suggestion  which 
cannot  be  understood.  It  is  an  imaginary  concept  of  the  mortal 
sense-mind  and  has  no  true  meaning;  that  is,  no  life-love-truth- 
meaning.  Its  use  is  sure  bondage  to  mortality  and  is  confusion 
in  sense  belief,  for  it  is  not  of  the  law  of  intelligence  as  facts 
of  being  in  perfection  which  can  be  absolutely  known.  Perspi- 
cuity as  the  substance  of  sagacity  is  that  state  of  spiritual  con- 
sciousness which  we  should  all  strive  to  attain,  for  it  has  the 
ability  to  make  us  understand  and  gain  the  right. 

Ambiguity  as  fear  and  ignorance  in  death  thoughts  of  mortal 
mind,  are  not  the  states  of  conscience  which  express  life  and  are 
to  be  avoided. 

SAGENESS,  THE  Truth  of  Sagacity,  versus  SILLINESS,  as 
A  False  Concept. 

Silliness  is  a  mark  of  thoughtlessness,  also  a  mark  of  mortality, 
and  is  the  result  of  having  listened  to  sense  testimony  which  alone 


Wisdom  263 

makes  us  silly  and  foolish  in  our  ways.  It  is  a  sign  of  a  darkened 
consciousness^  self  conscious  and  blind  to  the  presence  of  the  law, 
utterly  unreliable  and  does  not  express  intelligence.  When  we 
awake  to  the  grandeur,  power  and  might  of  sageness  as  a  spiritual 
state  of  being  and  realize  the  advantage  it  gives  to  its  possessor 
we  will  avoid  silliness. 


INFORMATION,   the    Love    of    Knowledge,    versus    ILLU- 
SION, AS  A  Hate  Concept. 

Illusion  is  the  false  impression  which  the  appearances  of  mat- 
ter gives  to  the  thoughtless  person.  Our  false  sense  interpreta- 
tions as  to  the  reality  of  material  appearances  are  the  cause  of 
our  illusions  and  many  of  our  mistakes.  We  must  learn  to  abide 
by  the  testimony  of  the  soul  in  perfect  spiritual  facts  as  knowl- 
edge, as  expressions  of  the  law  of  one  right  in  the  Christ-law. 
By  this  only  are  we  delivered  from  sense  testimony  and  escape 
the  fury  and  confusion  of  sense  falsity.  True  information  is 
given  in  the  soul  and  destroys  all  illusion  through  its  final  testi- 
mony. 

ERUDITION,    the    Truth    of    Knowledge,    versus    ILLIT- 
ERACY, AS  A   False   Concept. 

Illiteracy  suggests  the  absence  of  intelligence.  It  is  a  mortal 
consciousness  in  which  there  is  no  truth,  for  intelligence  is  never 
absent. 

It  is  not  a  state  of  being  having  power  as  an  entity,  for  intelli- 
gence is  the  one  thing  which  has  power  and  being.  The  carnal 
mind  suggests  that  we  are  nothing  and  also  illiterate,  and  worse, 
that  we  all  believe  this  lie  and  abide  within  its  influence. 

We  must  not  lose  sight  of  the  fact  of  the  law's  presence,  but 
hold  fast  to  the  consciousness  of  life-action,  love-substance,  truth- 
perfection,  for  in  this  way  will  we  overcome  the  belief  and  false 
impression  that  we  are  illiterate.  We  are  soul  entities  and  not  il- 
literate mortals,  for  it  is  tlie  evil  mortal  sense  which  is  illiterate 
and  nothingness. 


264  The  Christ-Law 

COMPREHENSION,  the  Life  of  Knowledge,  versus  VOID, 
AS  A  Death  Concept. 

Void  is  a  mortal  concept  of  absence;  it  would  have  the  law 
of  truth  and  right  inactive  and  reduced  to  nothingness,  and  more, 
it  would  have  us  use  our  God-given  gift  of  thought-action  to  pro- 
duce this  state  of  void  thought  or  nothingness.  Sense  impression 
or  the  illusion  of  appearance  is  the  cause  of  our  mistakes,  and 
behind  them  is  nothingness.  Comprehension  is  the  acceptance 
of  good  as  the  law  of  right;  its  spiritual  power  prevails  at  all 
times  and  holds  us  in  perfection  because  it  is  perfect.  Compre- 
hension of  immortality  is  surely  wisdom  and  will  overcome  void 
mortality. 

How  TO  Know  Wisdom. 

Having  gained  supremacy  over  the  false  concept  given  in  the 
past  pages,  we  are  ready  to  enter  into  the  law  of  immortal  truth. 
We  have  satisfied  ourselves  that  sense  appearances  are  not  im- 
mortal, and  in  fact,  they  are  not  at  all  in  the  realm  of  truth. 
Within  our  conscience  is  an  active  spiritual  being  as  the  thinking 
soul,  which  expresses  the  law  of  the  Christ  alone,  in  it  alone 
do  we  live  and  move  and  have  true  being,  and  this  fact  must  be 
grasped  firmly  and  held  fast. 

The  truth  about  every  object  of  matter  is  its  life-action,  love- 
substance,  truth-perfection.  All  other  interpretations  are  false 
sense  suggestions,  death  appearances,  impressions  as  sense  illu- 
sions and  not  true. 

The  concept  of  fear  coming  through  sense  analysis  and  the  in- 
terpretation of  mortals  in  determining  that  which  is  real  and  true 
is  at  fault.  Because  when  we  abide  within  the  consciousness  of 
the  law  we  lose  every  bit  of  fear  and  do  not  understand  the  tes- 
timony of  the  carnal-sense-mind. 

The  following  tables  are  intended  to  give  a  definite  method 
of  attaining  this  law  of  righteousness  in  expression,  which  is  to 
utterly  annihilate  the  power  and  right  of  sense  testimony  in  mor- 
tality. 

To  annihilate  a  wrong  impression  or  interpretation  through 
false  imperfect  sense  organs,  is  not  to  annihilate  the  universe. 


Wisdom  265 

but  rather  a  false  concept  of  the  universe.  It  is  not  to  annihilate 
thought,  but  is  to  learn  to  avoid  unlawful  use  of  our  gift  of 
thought.  That  which  we  are  to  understand  by  these  pages  is  that 
our  mortal  concept  of  things  is  at  fault  and  not  the  things  thenr- 
selves.  We  must  learn  to  go  deeper  than  the  surface  of  sense 
testimony;  we  must  penetrate  the  depths  of  reason  until  we  reach 
the  testimony  of  truth  within  the  soul,  wherein  alone  do  we  get  a 
true  answer  which  satisfies  and  which  is  final. 

The  wise  man  will  filter  all  sense  testimony  through  the  realm 
of  reason,  where  it  is  purified  and  made  clean  before  it  reaches 
the  soul,  so  that  when  we  give  it  forth  it  will  be  in  accordance 
with  the  Christ-law. 

The  following  pages  should  be  studied  in  conjunction  with  the 
diagram  of  the  Star  of  Bethlehem. 

The  Tables  of  the  Ninth  Point  of  the  Star  of  Wisdom. 
Table  One. 

The  love-substance  of  active  Life  equals  truth's  perfect  Wis- 
dom. 

Table  Two. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Wisdom  equals  truth's  perfect 
Demonstration. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Wisdom  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Sagacity. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Wisdom  equals  life's  active 
Knowledge. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Wisdom  in  the  third  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Demonstration,  Sagacity,  Knowledge.  These  ideas  represent 
Wisdom. 

Table  Three. 

The  truth-perfection  of  active  Demonstration  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Completion. 

The  life-action  of  active  Demonstration  equals  life's  active 
Proof. 


266  The  Christ-Law 

The  love-substance  of  active  Demonstration  equals  truth's 
perfect  Manifestation. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Demonstration  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind 
are  Completion^  Proof^  Manifestation.  These  ideas  represent 
Demonstration.  , 

Table  Four. 

The  life-action  of  substantial  Sagacity  equals  truth's  perfect 
Attainment. 

The  love-substance  of  substantial  Sagacity  equals  love's  sub- 
stantial Perspicuity. 

The  truth-perfection  of  substantial  Sagacity  equals  life's  active 
Sageness. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Sagacity  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are  At- 
tainment, Perspicuity,  Sageness.     These  ideas  represent  Sagacity. 

Table  Five. 

The  love-substance  of  perfect  Knowledge  equals  life's  active 
Information. 

The  truth-perfection  of  perfect  Knowledge  equals  truth's  per- 
fect Erudition. 

The  life-action  of  perfect  Knowledge  equals  love's  substantial 
Comprehension. 

Therefore  the  counterparts  or  the  developed  meaning  of  the 
Christ-Mind  of  Knowledge  in  the  fourth  revelation  of  Mind  are 
Information,  Erudition,  Comprehension.  These  ideas  represent 
Knowledge. 

These  are  the  tables  within  the  ninth  head  of  the  law  and  are 
to  be  committed  so  as  to  have  them  fixed  in  mind  for  use  when 
needed. 

They  are  to  be  soul  expressions  as  states  of  spiritual  being, 
and  when  understood  will  reveal  our  immortal  life-action,  which 
is  not  to  die. 


Wisdom  267 

The  inherent  power  within  these  words  as  that  of  the  Christ's 
perfect  law  will  lead  us  into  an  understanding  of  God  and  his 
law  of  good. 

We  will  no  longer  be  attracted,  neither  distracted,  by  the  evil 
appearances  which  are  flouted  at  us  from  outer  darkness  as  sense 
suggestions  of  death  and  fury. 

The   Relation  of  the  Ideas  W^ithin  the  Point  of  Wisdom. 

The  ideas  of  this  point  of  the  Star  are  intended  to  give  a  clear 
expression  of  wisdom  and  to  teach  us  how  to  be  wise  in  their  use. 

Beginning  with  demonstration,  we  find  that  it  is  in  association 
with  peace,  for  all  demonstration  produces  a  concept  of  peace, 
and  then  comes  the  association  of  infallibility;  this  expresses  the 
permanent  good  of  the  law,  which  is  unassailable.  So  wisdom 
gives  to  its  possessor  a  demonstrable  power  of  peace  through  in- 
fallible  law. 

Sagacity  is  in  association  with  unity.  Surely  it  is  wisdom  to  be 
in  perfect  harmony  with  the  Christ-law,  for  then  will  come  the 
association  of  control  which  completes  the  realization  of  sagacity 
in   unity   and   control. 

Knowldge  is  in  association  with  freedom  and  power.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  knowledge  is  that  power  of  truth  which  makes 
us  free  from  mortal  imaginations,  and  it  was  even  given  as  a  fact 
by  our  Saviour. 

Out  of  infinite  presence  comes  the  understanding  of  demon- 
stration, the  fact  of  those  things  which  are  made  perfect  and 
finished. 

Out  of  presence  and  demonstration  we  are  led  into  being  saga- 
cious, it  is  our  way  of  gaining  a  perception  of  truth  through  its 
demonstrations. 

Out  of  demonstration  and  sagacity  come  knowledge  as  that 
perfect  state  of  understanding  which  constitutes  our  being. 

This  completes  the  nine  points  of  the  Star  and  expresses  every 
phase  of  Mind,  still  not  in  its  infinite  development,  for  many 
circles  of  Mind's  expanded  meaning  can  yet  be  accomplished. 

Out  of  immutable  existence  comes  the  concept  of  completion. 

Out  of  existence  and  completion  comes  the  concept  of  proof. 


268  The  Christ-Law 

Out  of  complete  proof  comes  manifestation  as  certain  under- 
standing. 

Out  of  proof  manifested  do  we  receive  the  consciousness  of 
attainment. 

Out  of  manifest  attainment  comes  perspicuity  as  a  wise  con- 
science. 

Out  of  attained  perspicuity  comes  sageness. 

Out  of  sageness  and  perspicuity  we  receive  true  information. 

Out  of  sage  information  comes  erudition  as  ability  in  learning. 

Out  of  information  and  erudition  comes  comprehension  as  an 
ability  to  understand  the  law  in  all  of  its  phases  of  expression. 

This  completes  the  nine  points  of  the  Star  as  far  as  the  fourth 
circle  of  Mind's  developed  meaning,  according  to  the  life-action, 
love-substance,  truth-perfection   interpretation. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  reader  will  not  stop  here  with  the 
fourth  circle,  but  pursue  the  enlightenment  of  further  circles, 
for  the  fifth  and  sixth  are  quite  possible  to  fill  out  and  will  give 
a  very  complete  list  of  perfect  states  of  spiritual  consciousness. 

Bible    Records    Relating   to    the   Law    of   Wisdom. 
The  Ninth  Commandment. 

In  Exodus  20:2,  16,  we  read  (Because)  **I  am  the  Lord  thy 
God  which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,  out  of 
the  house  of  bondage.'*     Therefore — 

"Thou  shalt  not  bear  false  witness  against  thy  neighbor.'* 

Because  we  have  come  into  contact  with  the  true  testimony 
of  Spirit  to  our  spirit,  and  witnessed  its  final  and  satisfying 
state  of  being,  then  we  shall  have  overcome  the  condemnation  of 
sense    disapproval. 

We  shall  not  testify  of  evil  in  our  neighbor,  because  we  shall 
see  him  in  his  spiritual  perfection  and  realize  that  to  testify 
falsely  is  our  sin^  which  is  sure  to  reap  its  reward  of  correction 
because  of  the  power  of  truth. 

We  shall  have  gained  wisdom  as  the  love  of  life,  and  through  it 
come  into  touch  with  our  Saviour's  presence.  While  abiding 
within  the  realm  of  wisdom  we  shall  not  be  able  to  perceive  the 
destructive  sense  testimony  of  the  things  of  outer  darkness,  and 
we  shall  not  use  these  false  appearances  against  our  neighbor. 


Wisdom  269 

The  tenth  commandment  is  included  within  the  eighth^  for 
when  we  overcome  our  desire  to  steal  and  learn  that  we  already 
have  as  our  rightful  possession  all  things  from  a  loving  Father 
which  are  just  as  good  as  our  neighbor's^  then  there  will  be  noth- 
ing to  steal  or  covet^  for  we  shall  have  lost  this  mortal  concept. 

The  Ninth  Beatitude. 

In  Matt.  5:11^  12,  we  read  the  last  beatitude,  which  refers  to 
this  last  point  of  the  Star  of  Wisdom. 

"Blessed  are  ye  when  men  shall  revile  you  and  persecute  you, 
and  shall  say  all  manner  of  evil  against  you  falsely,  for  my  sake:" 

"Rejoice  and  be  exceeding  glad,  for  great  is  your  reward  in 
heaven,  for  so  persecuted  they  the  prophets  which  were  before 
you." 

To  be  reviled  by  mortals  and  persecuted  through  their  domi- 
nating will  to  do  evil,  because  you  possess  that  which  they  do  not, 
is  something  to  be  glad  about,  for  the  reward  is  ours.  Mortals 
who  take  the  standard  of  destructive  material  appearance  as  a 
guide  cannot  acknowledge  a  power  of  Spirit  truthfully,  for  they 
do  not  sense  such  a  thing  and  judge  you  in  error  because  of  it. 
Because  we  have  learned  to  separate  between  the  mortal  sense 
expression  and  the  spiritual  soul  expression  and  been  blessed 
therein  we  are  hated  by  those  who  have  not.  But  let  us  rejoice 
in  that  we  have  overcome  the  sense  testimony  of  evil. 

We  must  stand  firm  in  the  manifestation  of  the  Christ-truth,  for 
therein  we  are  blessed  alone,  therein  shall  we  receive  our  reward 
of  harmony  as  the  presence  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

The   Lord's   Prayer. 

In  Matt.  6:13,  we  read  the  last  section  of  the  Lord's  Prayer, 
which  is  a  summing  up  of  the  whole  law  in  the  point  of  wisdom. 
It  is  a  rehearsal  of  the  full  reward  which  is  sure  to  come  to  those 
who  serve  the  Christ  and  abide  within  his  perfection. 

"For  thine  is  the  kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the  glory,  for- 
ever." 

For  thine  is  the  kingdom  of  love  in  Holiness ;  and  the  power  of 
truth  in  Principle;  and  the  glory  of  life  in  Being. 


270  The  Christ-Law 

This  last  point  of  the  Star  in  wisdom  as  the  love  of  life  is  the 
finishing  touch  to  the  law^  for  it  is  the  final  attainment  in  coming 
before  him  in  worship;  it  includes  every  right  and  perfect  state 
of  spiritual  holiness  and  beings  expressed  through  principle. 

The  Sermon   on  the   Mount. 

In  Matt.  7:21-29,  we  read  that  which  our  Saviour  and  Mas- 
ter had  to  say  about  the  law  in  wisdom. 

In  wisdom  we  are  to  gain  a  state  of  final  perfection  through 
the  revelations  of  the  law  of  righteousness.  Jesus  states  that 
which  is  required  to  complete  our  understandings  for  he  says  Not 
everyone  who  says  unto  me^  Lord^  Lord,  shall  enter  into  the  king- 
dom of  heaven^  but  l\p  that  doeth  the  law  of  righteousness  as 
my  Father's  will  of  good.  A  sensation  or  sense  appearance  of 
the  law  will  not  answer^  it  must  be  a  soul  experience  spiritually 
expressed,  then  only  shall  we  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
which  is  within.  It  must  be  love  within  the  heart  as  an  honest 
state  of  spiritual  expression. 

Then  Jesus  tells  us  plainly  of  that  which  will  happen,  for  he 
says  that  some  people  will  strive  to  justify  themselves  before 
him  in  self  defense  of  the  mortal  lives  of  deceit  and  fury  which 
they  have  lived.  A  selfish  interpretation  of  the  bible  records 
which  has  been  twisted  to  fit  their  own  desires  and  lusts  will  not 
pass  before  the  perfect  Christ. 

Little  do  these  people  realize  that  the  ever-present  Christ  as 
spiritual  law  and  power  already  knows  every  soul  which  has 
come  into  its  being  and  likeness  through  the  expression  of  his 
right  ideas  as  perfect  states  of  being  or  consciousness.  These 
have  demonstrated  his  likeness  and  are  known  by  him,  but  the 
erring  mortal  who  has  lived  in  the  mortal  consciousness  and 
through  deceit,  hypnotism  and  craft  claimed  to  have  followed 
the  law  and  done  the  works  of  the  law  in  healing  and  reforma- 
tion shall  be  called  to  account  by  our  Saviour.  He  shall  say  unto 
them,  depart  from  me,  ye  workers  of  iniquity  who  abide  in  the 
false  interpretations  of  the  evil  deceiving  sense,  for  I,  living  in 
the  spiritual  realm  of  the  soul  expressions  of  honest  and  true 
love,  never  knew  you  therein. 


Wisdom  271 

Depart  from  me^  ye  who  practice  craft  through  material  means, 
by  mesmerism,  charms  and  false  principles,  working  the  works 
of  sense  appearances  which  are  opposed  to  the  Christ-law  of 
righteousness,  for  I  never  knew  you.  To  know  and  express  the 
law  of  life,  love,  truth,  is  our  one  way  to  salvation. 

In  verse  24,  Jesus  sums  up  the  whole  situation  and  the  result 
of  following  or  not  following  the  one  law  of  righteousness.  He 
likens  anyone  who  has  heard  the  testimony  of  this  law,  that  is 
understood  it  in  the  heart  and  lived  under  its  influence  and  within 
its  protection,  to  a  man  who  built  his  house  of  conscience  in  this 
way,  that  is,  upon  this  rock  of  the  Christ-law.  For  when  the 
rains  and  floods  of  evil  in  this  world's  experiences  come  upon  him 
they  cannot  prevail  against  the  law  of  the  Christ  within  this 
man's  conscience,  for  it  is  fortified  in  wisdom. 

Again  Jesus  speaks  to  the  people  and  says  that  everyone  who 
shall  hear  the  law  and  not  abide  within  its  influence  and  under 
its  protection  shall  be  likened  unto  a  man  who  built  his  house  of 
conscience  upon  the  shifting  sands  of  mortal  sense  appearance, 
abiding  by  the  sense  experiences  of  material  things  here  in  this 
world,  none  of  which  can  be  trusted  implicitly.  And  when  the 
rains  and  floods  of  mortal  errors  came  upon  him  he  could  not 
withstand  them  because  he  had  no  power  of  understanding. 

To  have  nothing  but  the  substance  of  belief  behind  our  living 
will  be  a  terrible  realization  at  the  last,  for  it  will  mean  that 
we  have  not  earned,  neither  gained,  eternal  existence;  we  will 
be  found  not  worthy  to  sit  with  our  Saviour  in  his  kingdom  of 
love  and  good. 

To  trust  to  luck  and  take  a  chance  of  getting  an  understanding 
of  the  principle  of  mathematics  without  labor  within  its  perfect 
law  in  an  honest  effort  and  persistent  striving  therefor  is  on  a 
par  with  our  right  to  possess  the  kingdom  of  heaven  and  its  won- 
der and  glory  without  honestly  having  earned  it.  And  our  Mas- 
ter says  that  in  that  great  day  we  shall  all  be  measured  by  that 
same  standard  of  holiness,  and  to  those  who  do  not  possess  it 
he  will  say,  '^Depart  from  me,  ye  workers  of  iniquity,  for  I  never 
knew  you." 


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